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__label__cc	0.729159	0.270841	How did you hear about us?Family/FriendInternetTVAttorneyFacebookLinkedInBlogMobile AppClient/former clientWESH LawlineOther Source MORE THAN $100 MILLION RECOVERED Michael Barszcz, M.D., J.D. Michael Mandeville, Esq. Seatbelts and Car Accidents Choosing an Automobile Accident Attorney Uninsured/Underinsured Drivers and Car Accidents Accidents in a Rental Car Car vs. Motorcycle Accidents SUV Accidents Plane Accidents Choosing a Medical Malpractice Attorney Emergency Room Negligence Surgical Negligence Late Diagnosis Choosing a Personal Injury Attorney Why Choose Our Personal Injury Attorney Types of Personal Injury Falls and Fractures How do I know if I have a Personal Injury Claim? What to do after a Personal Injury What are some examples of Personal Injury? Personal Injury statutes of limitations Product Liability & Defective Products Misrepresentation of Defective Products Orlando & Winter Park, Florida DUI RELATED CAR ACCIDENTS Nearly half of all traffic accident fatalities are alcohol related. That’s an alarming number when you take into account that it is generally the passengers of the vehicle the drunk driver hit who suffer the most serious injuries. Florida DUI accident attorney, Florida DUI accident attorney, Michael Barszcz, M.D., J.D., understands the legal and medical ramifications of a serious, alcohol related accident and represents the victims who have suffered at the hands of someone else’s carelessness and negligence. Government anti-drunk-driving laws have changed the legally intoxicated BAC (blood alcohol content) level from 0.10 to 0.08. The intoxicated driver loses their license (temporarily), faces fines and the possibility of incarceration. However, the offense is still considered only a misdemeanor, which in many cases will only temporarily deter the offender from repeating the offense at a later date. Why hire an attorney who’s also a medical doctor? When the stakes are high, EVERY MOVE MATTERS. Victim Hardship If you are the victim of a DUI related car accident, you may suffer from any combination of the following: Temporary medical disability You are entitled to compensation for any and all of these injuries, regardless of the level of punishment the offending driver receives. AGGRESSIVE ADVOCATE FOR YOUR RIGHTS Michael Barszcz, M.D, J.D., is experienced in representing victims of DUI related auto accidents and will aggressively investigate and hold accountable those responsible for your financial, emotional and physical pain and suffering. Mr. Barszcz routinely uses his resources to determine the following: Previous DUI charges the offender may have The level of responsibility of the establishment serving the offender alcohol The circumstances surrounding the offender’s intoxication and decision to drive Mr. Barszcz represents victims of DUI related accidents on a contingency basis. This means you pay nothing until he has recovered compensation for you. If you or a loved one has been injured in a DUI related auto accident, please contact the law offices of Florida DUI injury attorney, Michael Barszcz, M.D., J.D., for a free consultation. We represent clients in Florida and within the local Orlando and Winter Park, Florida area. Failure to diagnose and treat respiratory distress after delivery leads to respiratory arrest and brain injury (hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy) Failure to diagnose and treat pre-eclampsia leads to maternal death. Improper medication prescribed for patient with asthma leads to death. Law Offices of Michael Barszcz, M.D., J.D. 2721 West Fairbanks Avenue #200 Winter Park, FL, 32789 1.866-843-6353 (toll free) © theMDJD.com 2016 All Rights Reserved. This website is intended for general informational purposes only. Use of, or reliance on, information contained on the site does not create a legal relationship with The Law Offices of Michael Barszcz, M.D, J.D. Please contact our Orlando accident lawyers to schedule a free consultation if you need professional legal counseling in Florida. Our attorneys represent clients in Winter Park, Orlando, and throughout Florida. We practice only law and do not practice medicine nor offer medical advice. Designed by: Pherona	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line403
__label__wiki	0.95301	0.95301	WWE NXT Dallas 2016 Predictions Phil Oscarson (Dave Mandel/Sherdog) Is Michael Page The Star Bellator Has Always Needed? Jake Schneider Bellator, News, Recaps, Spotlight Michael “MVP” Page is a British mixed martial arts fighter who has debatably the best highlight tape in all of MMA. Page is a fighter that many people have had their eye on even before his Bellator signing, but after his most recent victory it can easily be said that Bellator has a new superstar on their hands. When you first think of mixed martial arts you automatically connect it with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. What most common fans don’t know is there are a ton of other promotions out there and these smaller mixed martial arts companies are where all of the UFC’s biggest stars get their start. Promotions such as Legacy Fighting Championship who have had fighters like Holly Holm and Thomas Almeida, Resurrection Fighting Association who has had UFC champions Jose Aldo, Junior dos Santos, and Anderson Silva, and then there is Bellator MMA, which stands out as the best non-UFC promotion in MMA. Bellator has been for years the main rival company competing with UFC by creating their own stars and using a different tournament style format. They have produced stars such as Michael Chandler, Muhammed Luwal, Pat Curran, Patricio Freire, and current UFC Lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez. They also have a deal with a huge television network in Spike TV that features their events which helps them bring in more viewers. Since Bjorn Rebney stepped down as chairman and chief executive and chairman of Bellator, Scott Coker has come in and tried changing things up to make the company draw more viewers and develop a bigger fan base. Coker has put together big fights that have the non casual fight fans tuning in to watch such as Tito Ortiz returning and fighting former UFC fighter Stephen Bonnar as well as competing for a title, one of the biggest draws in all of mixed martial arts Kimbo Slice headling events and MMA legend Ken Shamrock returing to headline events against Slice and facing another legend in a rematch against Royce Gracie. While all of these fights will bring in new viewers from an entertaining standpoint, these fights aren’t the most talented fighters which is the opposite approach that the UFC takes in which they have headlining bouts that feature the two best fighters in that weight class. The reason Bellator can’t do that is because they can’t compete with the UFC when it comes to talent so they have to have fewers cards where the stack up the biggest names on their roster, featuring the same big names as the big fights on majority of all big events. A new trend that has been happening with UFC stars is they feel they are being undervalued and have now begun testing the market, which is something that has never really happened in the past. Most recently Bellator has been able to sign former lightweight champion Benson Henderson, and heavyweight Matt Mitrione, as well as being in talks with some other fighters trying to test the market with rumors of talks with welterweight Rory Mcdonald. Bellator is starting to become more appetizing to UFC fighters and seems to be on the rise. With the promotion bringing in these big names they are going to be able to create big match ups for events and bring in those fighters followings that they created while competing in the UFC, as well as put on more competitive bouts. Bellator signed undefeated British prospect Michael Page back in 2014, and he has since gone 6-0 with 5 impressive finishes. Page brings a fighting style to mixed martial arts that has never been seen before, coming forward with his hands down and chin up, he relies on his speed and power to mock his opponents, looking at times as if he is literally dancing in front of his opponents until he finds an opening and using his explosiveness to charge in and end the fight with a highlight finish. If you were to look up his highlights it would look like something from a video game and that is exactly what makes fans so eager to want to see him. Although Page had the skill, entertainment, and cockiness to sell any fight, due to him not being on the biggest stage in MMA like the UFC many casual fans haven’t been able to see him, but after his last bout he has made huge waves all around the world and has many people looking forward to tuning into his next bout to see what he will do next. Page faced his toughest test to date when he took on Evangelista “Cyborg” Santos, a former strike force fighter who has been a veteran in mixed martial arts and has competed against big names such as Gegard Mousasi, Siyar Bahadurzada, and Nick Diaz. He was also fighting in his home town of England which made this the biggest fight by far of his career. In the second round of the bout Page threw an extremely powerful shot to the body that had Santos visibly hurt, which resulted in Page throwing a flying knee that left Cyborg Santos cringing in pain holding his face on the ground. This knockout was one of the most vicious knockouts in mma history, with even referee legend Big John McCarthy tweeting after the fight, “@JohnM and it gained so much attention that it was featured and trending all over the internet, with even Sports Center talking about it. Another thing to note is that according to Bellator, The Michael Page knockout is the promotions most viewed video ever with 3.3 million views and counting. Bellator 158 also broke another promotion record with the event generating over 90,000 total social media mentions which is the most event for an event. After the highlights of the knockout were trending all over the world, a few days later photos began circulating of the gruesome injury that Santos had due to the knee landed by Page, resulting in a fractured skull. Page is the star that Bellator has been searching for and with Page becoming one of the biggest “must watch” fighters in mixed martial arts, they are beginning to pick up a ton of more speed and becoming a much more respectable promotion. Another thing to note is that right now Page is becoming the biggest star to come out of England, which is a place that right now the UFC is lacking in star power. If Page can continue to put on remarkable knockout performances like he has thus far he is going to become not just the biggest star in Bellator, but will be as big as some of the stars in the UFC. When people think of superstars they have to have that “It” factor that makes fans want to tune in and watch them perform. Fighters like Ronda Rousey and Connor Mcgregor for instance are the two biggest superstars in MMA today. They both have the confidence and personality to hype up a fight, and then when it comes to going out and performing they have a fighting style that excited and intrigues people to want to see more, putting on dominant victories in spectacular fashion. Page has all of those characteristics, finishing his opponents in amazing fashion and showing confidence that comes across as him being an unstoppable force. After one of his victories, after he finished his opponent he did the trending running man dance that had the video trending throughout the internet and in his most recent victory while his opponent laid on the floor he put on a pokemon hat and threw a pokemon ball at him, incorporating the biggest trend buzzing now in Pokemon Go into his performance to get people talking. With his charisma and fan friendly fighting style he will be bringing in way more people to tune into Bellator just for the purpose of seeing him in action. For the first time in the promotions history Bellator has a superstar on their hands that can compete and be as big as the biggest superstars the UFC has to offer, and his name is Michael Page. BellatorMichael Page Chael Sonnen Tested Twice By USADA Carneiro vs Robertson, Montano vs. Muhammed Added to UFC FN 94 Jake Schneider is a student at the University of Rhode Island who is currently looking to pursue a double major in Communications and Journalism. He is an MMA fanatic who has been following the sport for years. He began to share his wealth of knowledge and opinions on the sport to many of his family members and friends as well as various MMA forums online. His love and passion for the sport has been able to make many people that are a part of his life fans of mixed martial arts as well. His insight of the sport both inside and outside of the cage is what makes his analysis on fights and individual fighters so well informed. Michael Page: UK Boxing Fighter Who Will Return to MMA giantslor I agree, question is, can they hold on to him?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line406
__label__wiki	0.830524	0.830524	Nat'l Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Assoc. About the NCATA USA Gymnastics Alderson Broaddus University Arizona Christian University Coker College Converse College Davis & Elkins College East Stroudsburg University East Texas Baptist University Fairmont State University Gannon University Georgetown College (Ky.) Glenville State University Hawaii Pacific University King University Limestone College Urbana University West Liberty University Student-Athlete Guide This is Acrobatics & Tumbling Meet Format 2017 NCATA Tournament Central FELIX EVENT CENTER • AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY • AZUSA, CALIFORNIA THURSDAY, APRIL 27 (ALL TIMES PST) 10 a.m. No. 3 Quinnipiac - 270.645 No. 6 Alderson Broaddus - 264.755 Results No. 2 Baylor - 276.275 No. 7 Gannon - 254.910 Results No. 1 Oregon - 278.800 No. 8 King - 257.260 Results 4 p.m. No. 4 Hawaii Pacific - 271.095 No. 5 Azusa Pacific - 272.735 Results No. 3 Quinnipiac - 273.945 No. 2 Baylor - 279.325 Results No. 5 Azusa Pacific - 271.335 No. 1 Oregon - 277.625 Results For the second time in program history, Azusa Pacific University will host the 2017 National Collegiate Acrobatics and Tumbling Association (NCATA) National Championships, set to take place from April 27-29 at the Felix Event Center in Azusa, California. Becoming the second program among the NCATA footprint to host multiple national championships, APU will host the premier week of acrobatics and tumbling for the second time in four years after hosting in 2014. Tickets for the three-day event are available at the following, daily rates: Seniors (62 and Over): $7 Military: $7 Children (2 and Under): Free In addition, an all-tournament pass is available at the rate of $30 per person. The all-tournament pass grants the bearer admission to the quarterfinal, semifinal and championship meets along with the individual event finals. Azusa Pacific University will present free live video streams of all events throughout championship weekend through a partnership with Stretch Internet. The link for all live video streams is available here. On Thursday April 27, the quarterfinals begin at 10 a.m., followed by matchups at 12 p.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Friday will decide the 2017 NCATA National Championship matchup with semifinals at 5 and 7 p.m., and a jam-packed Saturday will begin at 10 a.m. with the NCATA Individual Event Finals. The 2017 NCATA National Championship takes place at 7 p.m. live from the Felix Center. Maintaining the structure seen in previous years, the tournament will consist of eight teams competing in a bracket-style, single elimination tournament, culminating in Saturday's championship meet. The individual event finals consist of the top four individuals or groups from across the landscape of the NCATA in each heat of acro, pyramid, tumbling and toss events. An unforgettable weekend showcasing the best competition in the nation, the 2017 NCATA Championship Weekend is poised to be a must-see event. In 2014, the last time Azusa Pacific hosted the national championships, Oregon Ducks defeated the hosting Cougars, 290.825-282.600 for their fourth consecutive title on April 27, 2014. Alderson Broaddus, Baylor, Fairmont State, Gannon, Hawaii Pacific, King and Quinnipiac joined the 2014 tournament field, which saw Oregon and Baylor square off in one quarterfinal while the Bobcats of Quinnipiac battled Azusa Pacific for the second title berth. This season, Baylor aims for its third consecutive NCATA National Championship, while the Oregon Ducks are determined to return to championship form and clinch the fifth title in program history. Be sure to follow the NCATA on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for updates throughout the final month of the regular season to see where your favorite program stands on the road to Azusa Pacific University and the 2017 NCATA National Championships. 2017 NCATA Tournament Schedule 10 a.m. - No. 3 Quinnipiac vs. No. 6 Alderson Broaddus 12 p.m. - No. 2 Baylor vs. No. 7 Gannon 2 p.m. - No. 1 Oregon vs. No. 8 King 4 p.m. - No. 4 Hawaii Pacific vs. No. 5 Azusa Pacific 5 p.m. - Quinnipiac/Alderson Broaddus vs. Baylor/Gannon 7 p.m. - Oregon/King vs. Hawaii Pacific/Azusa Pacific 10 a.m. - Individual Event Finals 7 p.m. - NCATA National Championship The national collegiate acrobatics & tumbling association - A discipline of USA gymnastics	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line408
__label__wiki	0.784586	0.784586	"The truth is, there is no “proper” subject for poetry. All of life is its subject. Nothing should be out of bounds." Max Wallis • Guardian "This is an extraordinarily rich book from a young poet who is already able to make phrases dance and vibrate. He is skilled with prose poems, open form and the placement of short lines. And that technical range is allied with a hugely fertile imagination to create a book which is often unputdownable." Ian Pople • Manchester Review "You don't need to know what Modernism did to poetry to feel how the project of twenty-first-century life means following through on the great social changes of the twentieth century—you just need to check Facebook and see how many times we need to be liked to get up in the morning." Katie Peterson • Poetry Daily "One of Yeats’s stranger ideas to come from the 1890s and the beginning of his immersion in the rituals and beliefs of the Order of the Golden Dawn was his wish -- influenced by Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s symbolist play Axël -- to establish a Castle of Heroes on a lake isle in Lough Key, County Roscommon, a lake that would, a half-century later become a very real part of John McGahern’s world when he moved to live with his father in Cootehall, Co Roscommon after the death of his mother." Frank Shovlin • Irish Times "There’s something shocking and very rebellious about the simple act in those final lines of consuming things that haven’t been regulated by bureaucracy and vetted by the state. This wild disengagement from politics and finance and the nanny-state occurs in quite a few of Pandemonium’s poems." Simon Haworth • The Manchester Review "Twombly reads both Seferis and Rilke in translation – the latter in Stephen Mitchell’s rendition of The Duino Elegies – as he reads Horace and Virgil in translation. And there, I’m afraid, is the rub." Marjorie Perloff • TLS "He was always a good hater and would have been a skilled practitioner of the medieval Scots tradition of poetic flyting – the trading of literary insults – but he was good at friendship too. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was the centre of a circle of poets, writers and critics who met regularly in the pubs and howfs of Edinburgh’s Rose Street. Milne’s Bar was a favourite venue and the smoke-filled corner where they regularly gathered became known as Little Kremlin. The group was more than a tight literary milieu, a Bloomsbury of the north, with whisky and incidental bagpipe music; it was the core of what would become known as the modern Scottish renaissance, kindling a cultural confidence that inspired the revived independence movement." Annalena McAfee • Guardian "He mines the poetry in his library – poetry whose aesthetic, as in the case of Rilke or Seferis, seems far removed from his own syncretic collage composition – for thematic material. And in responding to this process, Jacobus inevitably engages in what is traditional source study. She assesses with great acumen what Twombly’s aims were, and shows brilliantly how he combines the various poetic motifs in his painting. But the question remains, to paraphrase Clark, whether the inclusion of handwritten copies of specific poetic passages does anything to the normal art-ness of picture space. Since, for that matter, the poetic material is almost invisible – we have to take the critic’s word for its presence as well as for the further citations with which she often enhances her material – how much does its existence actually affect the space, structure, and scale of a given painting?" Marjorie Perloff • TLS "Thomas McCarthy’s style does not just apply historical insights and visions to familiar landscapes; his is a style that does not easily declare itself, cautiously feeling its way along the currents it describes, and occasionally editing in details that give away the vulnerability and safety the poems seem to desire in the world: “Like us, the tide is seeking a cove / Where it doesn’t need to be obliging,” begins Become Water, a poem that seems almost utopian in comparison with the book’s other scenes." John McAuliffe • Irish Times "Long ago I spent some years in the East, and I recall that in a certain establishment in a back street in Singapore a motto used to hang over the bar: ‘As a martini demands gin, so British verse requires Tom Raworth.’" John Tranter • Jacket "Raworth is very much in favour of jam (as reward, as improv) today: if there is one element that is at stake in all his work, it is that of speed. His is a quicksilver mind, one that announces very early, ‘i made this pact, intelligence/shall not replace intuition’ (‘Wedding Day’), and that revels in brushing aside any tendency to ponder." Jonathan Catherall • The Literateur "In the later poems, the most daily of routines are seen to have a political unconscious. The occasion for ‘Lippitude’ (the noun literally means soreness of the eyes, but it also implies having a lot of lip), is probably the familiar eye-chart test." Marjorie Perloff • PN Review "I began writing at 17 in what was chronologically my second language, having arrived in England at the age of eight as a Hungarian refugee with no English. I cannot tell precisely what inner resources I brought with me at that age, but I was not a clean slate. That slate had already been written on by my family history, my parents, my city, my street and the events of my then short life. I was, like everyone else, a palimpsest." George Szirtes • Guardian "Weirdly I think that one of the reasons why I like Dear Boy so much (and the selections of Berry’s work in this collection, which we can get on to) is that I find her poems so difficult and confusing. Not difficult and confusing in the way I find a lot of poetry though, where I might just read it once and forget about it, or move on to the next poem like huh (which I probably do too often), instead there are some poems in that book, and in this selection, that I feel like I’m now a bit obsessed with." Lucy Burns and Callum Coles • The Manchester Review "Nothing is natural in the work of Rae Armantrout. Our words, gestures, and relationships are conventional, scripted, deformed — or outright produced — by, as she has it, “the interventions of capitalism into consciousness.” On the subject of “nature,” I notice plenty of leaves, and leaf-shadows, and leaf-reflections (in both senses of the word) in her poems — but her plants are urban, compromised, possibly parodying of Keats." Vidyan Ravinthiran • Poetry Emily Berry The Morning Star Janet Rogerson Manchester Review Penelope Shuttle The Manchester Review Sean Hewitt New Statesman Daisy Fried Scoundrel Time Carl Phillips The Manchester Review Bill Manhire Manchester Review Tom Raworth Poetry Lavinia Greenlaw Guardian Emily Berry Poetry Thomas McCarthy Poetry	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line409
__label__wiki	0.550445	0.550445	Soccernomics and Penalty Shootouts. Just a quick followup to yesterday's post regarding penalty shootouts, especially as it has attracted a large number of views and quite a few emails. To clarify, the claim that the team taking the first penalty automatically has a 60% chance of winning before a ball is kick is Soccernomics' claim, not mine. So can people please stop emailing to say it's crazy to suggest that the team shooting first has a 60% chance of winning......I know it is Soccernomics have taken I believe 129 shootouts where the team kicking first has won 78 of the contests (60.4%) and proposed that the team opening the penalty shootout in future contests will enjoy this advantage. I do not agree with this interpretation of their figures. Imagine I toss a fair coin ten times and get 6 heads (60%). Could I claim that the coin is actually biased and heads will enjoy a 60% chance of appearing in future tosses? Intuitively the answer is no. I can try to confirm this intuition by either assuming that the coin is a fair one and calculate how likely I am to get an result as extreme or worse than 6 heads in 10 tosses with such a coin. The answer is 75% . That's a pretty big possibility that my 6 heads have arise by chance from a fair coin. Or I can carry on tossing to get more data. All you can say about a series of trials is how likely or unlikely is the result if we assume the coin is fair or has varying degrees of bias. Even with 129 trials and 60% heads, we can't say that this is a 60% biased coin, we can only make claims based on likelihood and probability. Below I've also taken option two, namely conduct more trials. I've recorded the results of just under 700 penalty shootouts, some of the data I'd previously collected, but I've updated it over the last day or so. It comprises all World Cup finals,all Euro Championships, the majority of FA Cup ties, Carling Cup ties, Asian cup matches, ACN games, playoff matches, European club ties and Johnson Paint games. Sources are many and varied, ranging from ESPN, to newspaper reports, wiki and fan uploaded Youtube video. I've read so many Brentford JP match reports, I'm halfway to becoming a fan! In many cases it is impossible to decide which team shot first, so many games have been omitted. Success Rate of Teams Kicking First in Penalty Shootouts 1974-2012. Various Competitions. Penalty Shootouts. Number Won By Team Kicking First. % Won By Team Kicking First. There's a 1 in 3 chances that a fair 50:50 shootout will produce 358 winning contests for the team going first in 689 attempts. Statistical convention suggests that you can start to harbour doubts when you find results that have a 1 in 20 or smaller probability of occurring by chance in a fair device. How ever you look at penalty shootouts, a claim for a 60% future success rate for first shooters isn't supported by the numbers. On to other matters................. Labels: Shooting first in a penalty shootout, Soccernomics Shooting First Is No Advantage in a Penalty Shootout. According to Soccernomics, the most dramatic ten seconds of a penalty shootout occurs when the BBC are back in the studio and ITV are on a commercial break. Namely the coin toss. 60% of the time, the team that takes the first penalty of a shootout goes onto win the contest and the authors have popped up on line throughout the later stages of the Champions League and during the Euros to reinforce this point. This nugget of advanced soccer analytics is regularly restated on blogs and websites and Prozone used an article on penalty shootouts to confirm " in accordance with the findings of Soccernomics, the apparent advantage of the team that takes the first penalty." The claim is certainly an eye catching one. Before we can reach a shootout the game usually must finish stalemated after over two hours of playing time, indicating that both teams are closely matched and therefore it seems reasonable to assume that they possess similar penalty taking and saving skills. The premise stated in the Prozone article is that the pressure of constantly playing catch up adversely affects the team going second. This presupposes that professionals feel stress and that the second team in the shootout are always playing catch up. They've used data from every World Cup and European Championship since 1998 as well as three key shootouts from this year's Carling Cup final and the Champions League Final and semi final and initially the evidence seems compelling. Two of the three key club shootouts were won by the team shooting first and 14 of the 18 World and European contests were similarly won. 16 out of 21 in total for a 76% success rate, certainly doesn't seem to be the kind of record you would expect from two equally matched "sides". If we assume that each team actually had an equal chance of winning the shootout, it's a trivial matter to treat the 21 shootouts as a series of coin tosses and we can calculate how likely it is that a result as extreme as the one presented for the team shooting first by Prozone will occur. That chance is just under 2.7%. Statistical protocol suggests that with a result of this magnitude we can agree that there is some evidence to suggest that a penalty shootout is not a 50/50 proposition between those shooting first and those going second. However, there are objections to this conclusion.The 1998 cut off is arbitrarily chosen as is the inclusion of the three key games, but we have much more data that we can draw on. The first shootout in the European Championship Finals was the Panenka final of 1976 and the first World Cup Finals one occurred in the 1982 semi final between West Germany and France. We have now extended the sample size to 37 World and Euro shootouts of which 20 were won by the first up side. Opening shooters still win more, but the success rate is now just 54%. The chances of the team shooting first and producing a 20 to 17 record if each shootout was actually a 50/50 proposition is now nearly 75%, so there's absolutely no reason to suspect we are seeing anything other than a fair contest. So far we can initially conclude that the Prozone sample of 16 first shot winners from 21 trials gave some evidence that the competition wasn't fair, but that result wasn't statistically significant at 5% levels if we assumed that the first team to shoot had an inbuilt advantage of just 53%. Furthermore, in larger sample sizes containing all Euro and World Cup shootouts of which the Prozone sample was just a subset, statistical significance disappeared completely and the success rate for team's going first was highly likely to have been produced by two equally matched teams of penalty takers. We are now left with Soccernomics' original 60% sample. The number of shootouts contained in their sample is, I believe 129, an impressive number, but still just a subset of all the penalty shootouts that have been played out. Therefore it is no more valid than Prozone's incomplete subset that supports first shooter supremacy or my more comprehensive sample that suggests we are seeing a fair contest. A 60% strike rate would suggest that on 77 or 78 occasions the contest was won by the team going first and as with the Prozone sample this gives us the statistically significant right to claim that the results are extreme enough to be inconsistent with a fair fight. But statistical significant disappears if we give the team going first an enhanced win probability of just 51.5%, a far cry from the claimed 60%. Just as pertinently, the 129 game sample is probably only a quarter of all shootouts that have been taken in major leagues and competitions and as we have seen subsets can produce results that may disappear in larger ones. The original claim is headline grabbing and the inclusion of plausible, subjective justifications for an advantage to exist make the idea appear compelling. It is just the kind of conclusion that advanced soccer statistical analysis should be hoping to discover......but unfortunately, it's not backed up by the numbers. A follow up post can be read here. Labels: Prozone, Shooting first in a penalty shootout, Soccernomics Taking Your Shots At Home and Away. It's essential to return to old topics once more substantial quantity and quality of data becomes available. Tempting though it may be to sign off a subject in any field as fully understood, it is rarely the case and today's conclusions should always be questioned or sometimes endorsed with new material. Home advantage is is a widely accepted facet of professional sport and can readily be demonstrated in football. Individual teams may occasionally produce superior away results in comparison to their home form even over an entire season, but this can happen through random chance in large groups of trials and away advantage rarely persists. Factors such as crowd pressure, referee bias and familiarity with the surroundings are plausible reasons why home field advantage may exist, but little hard data exists to back up these theories. On average, over time home teams outscore their visitors by a ratio of around 1.4:1 in the Premier League and that superiority filters down into the shooting conversion rates and shooting accuracy figures. Last season home sides had 3.5 more shots per game than their opponents and one more shot on target. This shooting disparity is likely to contribute to the size of the advantage, but reasons behind the existence of the imbalance has to remain speculation. Heightened aggression from the home team as discussed here may lead to a more attacking outlook from the hosts and this coupled with a deliberate offensive tactical approach may force the visitors onto the defensive. But whatever the reason, we are increasingly in a position to quantify the effectiveness of each team's shooting attempts and that enables use to being to peel away at some of the onfield interactions. Average Shooting Numbers for Home & Away Sides in the EPL 2011/12. Shots per Game. Shots on Target per Game. Home Sides. 16 5 Away Sides. 12.5 4 Shot numbers add some detail, but by looking at the area of the pitch from where each shot originated and comparing expected conversion figures with actual ones we can begin to understand something about the onfield conditions under which home and away teams take their shots. We saw here that Stoke, who tactically approach most games as if they are the visitors, balance poor shot numbers by creating better than average chances and we can make similar calculations for all away teams. Over multiple seasons, home sides out shoot away sides by a similar proportion as that seen in 2011/12. The average position of a home shot is a couple of yards inside the box and 7 yards wide of the centre of the goal, away teams are about a yard further out and a yard wider. So away sides are shooting from marginally less advantageous positions. A more useful way to demonstrate both the difficulty and scarcity of away shots compared to home ones is to plot frequency of shots sorted by distance from the goal. A Shot Map For Various EPL Sides 2009/10-2011/12. Every team that played in the EPL since 2009 are represented in the frequency plot and the profile of the home and away plots are very similar. The first peak comes about 4 yards in front of the penalty spot and the numerical supremacy of the home sides is well demonstrated. Once we move outside the penalty area the plots effectively merge. The peak at around 24 yards from goal can be easily explained by the number of direct free kicks, you can't have a free kick inside the 18 yard line and from much further out a shot quickly ceases to be a realistic option. Shot numbers outside the box are also very similar, indicating that away teams take a disproportionately larger proportion of longer ranged shots. So initially we can confirm that away sides take less shots than home teams and we can add that these shots are on average attempted from further. This incremental improvement in our knowledge of venue specific shooting tendencies can be added to by further comparing the scoring and accuracy expectations of each shot with the actual outcome. Expectancy Values verses Actual Values for Home and Away Shots in the EPL 2009-2012. Goals per 100 Shots. Expected Shots on Target per 100 Shots. Expected Blocked Shots per 100 Shots. Home Sides. 9.3 32 25 Actual Totals Away Sides. 8.4 31 26 Once shot position has been accounted for, home sides would expect to score almost nine and a half goals per 100 attempts and over a sample spanning nearly 30 different EPL teams and 3 of the most recent seasons and they fell short of that target by over half a goal. They were two shots per 100 shy of the expectation in terms of accuracy and two more shots per 100 were blocked compared to the model's prediction. So home sides underperfomed in all three areas. By contrast away teams overperformed the model in each of the three categories. Away sides were expected to score 8.4 goals per 100 judged on shot position (we saw they shoot from marginally poorer positions),but they managed just over nine. So we can now pull the various threads together. Home sides outshoot their opponents and they create seemingly better chances. However, in reality over thousands of shots they under perform against a non venue specific model. Defensive strategy at the moment plays no part in the positional shot conversion model, so we can speculate that home shots are made more difficult be weight of defensive numbers in and around the shooting area. The reverse may be true of away teams, they perform better than expected with their more limited number of shots. Again we may speculate that home team commit more to attack, allowing more freedom to visiting attackers when they do get within range. If visitors chose or are forced into playing a more defensive game, they appear to reap a slight payback through a better than expected overall conversion rate for their goal attempts. They score slightly more, see more shots on target and less blocked than predicted by a venue neutral model and with even more detailed data we may soon be able to tell if this approach is close to the optimum strategy to deal with a pumped up home foe. Labels: Home Advantage in the EPL, Shot Conversion Rates Measuring The Measurers. Only a few days to go before the eagerly awaited Olympic football kicks off in London and elsewhere, featuring hybrid versions of top international sides such as Spain, Uruguay, Brazil and Great Britain. Sandwiched as it is between the end of the Euros and the beginning of the new Premier League season, the competition may be a slightly hard sell to a footballing public that hasn't exactly been starved of top class action over recent weeks. Beckham's omission won't have helped to attract the casual fan tuning in and out of the Olympic feast, but a rump of under 23 talent combined with a maximum of three over aged players will ensure that every game holds some interest. The real challenge though lies at the feet of the sports analysis firms who will try to bring order to this infrequent format by predicting the outcome the Olympic football games. Predicting the outcome of Premiership games is usually most difficult at the start of a campaign because of the pre season movement of players and management. Longterm statistical trends are tweaked in one direction or another dependent upon how favourably each team's squad strengthening has been received and usually a consensus opinion is reached. In the case of the Olympic competition solid information is limited, few of the teams playing the length and breadth of England and Wales will have a large body of results to draw on in formulating their relative chances and the bulk of some teams, such as Great Britain won't have played a competitive game together prior to the tournament kicking off. It's therefore useful to have a method of evaluating the performance of a group of match selections and the forth coming event, shrouded in a mist of uncertainty is probably the most challenging of world football stages. All football matches have three possible outcomes when played over 90 minutes, predicting whether a match will end in a "home" win and "away" win or a draw is the lifeblood of football prognostication. Literally hundreds of derived markets have evolved over the last decade or so, ranging from total goals, first scorer to half time result and which team will qualify from a knockout tie, but 1,2,X remains the standard from which football prediction is measured and the baseline from which most of the secondary markets are derived. Many methods exist to test the measurers, and many are ad hoc and arbitrary. A points scoring system for every correct selection gives no extra credit for correctly predicting an unlikely outcome or for being particularly confident about a particular outcome. Systems based on expected proportions of wins and draws over a series of matches can see poor selections in one direction cancel out equally poor ones in another, leading to the illusion of accuracy. To cut through the uncertainty we need to judge each model's estimation of a match ending as a home win, draw or away win on the merits of it's original confidence of each selection occurring once we are in possession of the actual outcome. One simple method involves taking the square root of the sum of the squares of the prediction and the actual outcome and the smaller the result, then the better the prediction. Here's an example from the Euro 2012 Final using the opinions of two Irish bookmakers. Bookmakers estimations of match odds are always quoted with an extra edge of around 9 or 10%, so I've removed this overround to give a reasonable figure for the bookmakers estimation of the true chances of Spain, Italy or a stalemate resulting in 90 minutes. Paddy Power Get Bested by Boyle Sports in the Final of Euro 2012. Bookmaking Firm. PP BS Match Outcome Difference Squared for PP Difference Squared for BS. Probability of a Spain Win, 90 mins. 0.448 0.460 1 0.305 0.292 Probability of a Italy win, 90 mins. 0.296 0.298 0 0.088 0.089 Probability of a Draw, 90 mins. 0.256 0.242 0 0.066 0.059 Square Root of the Sum of the Squares. 0.676 0.662 Once Spain's 4-0 win in 90 minutes was confirmed, the likelihood of that result occurring collapses to 1 and the other two possible outcome become zero. BS were slightly more confident in a Spanish win than were PP, hence when the differences between prediction and reality are squared (to eliminate any confusion with minus signs), totalled and the square root taken, BS return a slightly lower figure. In this one match their estimation of what was likely to occur was marginally more accurate than that of their Irish rivals. Visually, BS were closer to the actual result, a Spanish win in regulation, but this method quantifies the difference and can be used over multiple games and multiple markets such as group qualification and pre tournament winners. The example is from the world of betting, but increasingly predictive models are being developed for a wide range of footballing events and they require a consistent way to gauge their effectiveness. One of the more difficult games anyone has had to evaluate takes place on Friday, when a scratch GB side take on Brazil....in a friendly. Below I've listed the edge free odds of a series of firms and after the game I'll list who showed the best judgement. How Firms View the Brazil v GB Olympic Warm Up Game. Bookmaking Firm. SB BFr SJ 888 BFa WBX Brazil Win. 0.513 0.532 0.496 0.537 0.541 0.548 Draw. 0.231 0.212 0.235 0.206 0.187 0.202 GB Win. 0.256 0.255 0.269 0.257 0.272 0.250 Square Root of the Sum of the Squares. 0.597 0.573 0.618 0.569 0.565 0.554 Labels: Evaluating football predictions, Olympic football Possession Is Not 9/10ths of the Law. "Remember, it's not about how long it is, but what you are able to do with it! Possession of the ball, that is..." quote from 11tegen11, July 19th 2012. Probably the most intelligent statement you are ever likely to read concerning the use of possession statistics in football. Possession stats tell you how long a team spent doing "things". They don't tell you what those things were. Teams could have been trying to score, they could have been trying to prevent the opposition from scoring by keeping the ball. Polar opposite objectives. Sides could have been comfortably ahead or they could have been comfortably behind. It doesn't tell you how good the players were at carrying out their various tasks. Tactical Approach. Ability to Carry out the Game Plan. Game Context. None of these factors appear in a catch all possession stat and each of them drives it. Percentage of Possession should be largely ignored. Labels: Time of Possession in EPL Getting Out Shot Isn't Always Bad News. With the influx of readily available data, shooting efficiency has quickly become the mainstay of much of the statistical analysis of both football teams and individual players. The rate at which a keeper keeps out shots, the ratio of goals to shots for strikers and team conversion rates are now a common and welcome addition for debate. While any advance in the quantity of data is to be welcomed, this all encompassing approach does have it's drawbacks. In judging a keeper or a striker simply on his shooting or saving success ratio we are hoping that sheer weight of trials are leveling out the quality of the attempts. The accuracy of our conclusions depend on keepers facing roughly the same overall quality of attempts or players or teams being presented with chances of roughly the same difficulty. An improvement compared to the previous goalcentric models perhaps, but still a not inconsiderable leap of faith. Euro 2012 well demonstrated that there are numerous ways to play football and teams as diverse as Stoke and Swansea can achieve virtually identical seasonal points tallies in the Premier League by employing polar opposite approaches. By using raw counting methods and applying it to such statistics as team shots, we may capture the general trend, but we are destined to miss almost all of the finer detail that may differentiate between the Midland's best EPL team of recent times and their Welsh cousin. Therefore a parallel approach is needed using more granular data or we risk dismissing alternative playing styles as mere outliers or the product of excessive luck. Everyone is comfortable heaping praise on the all conquering Spanish club or country sides, who are perceived as maximizing their talent with a style and philosophy that is both successful and pleasing to the eye. But we still need to try to explain why less attractive teams appear to prosper, especially if their success appears to contradict the new statistics that are currently used to define desirable team talent. The first step to improving the information gained from shot data is to be able to attribute a expectancy for each shot or header based on the origin of the attempt. How likely is a shot to result in a save, a miss, a block or a goal. This tentative first step is available from Opta supported apps, such as FourFourTwo's Stats Zone and while data collection is time consuming, the effort is rewarding. The continued comfortably successful presence of Stoke in the EPL midtable and within the various domestic and European cup competitions regularly provokes reactions ranging from mild bemusement to outright hostility. Especially as they are entering their fifth consecutive top flight campaign while appearing to perform poorly in many of the shot based advanced metrics and possession stats.I'm extremely skeptical about the usefulness of possession data ,but for now I'll use Stoke to illustrate how shot data can reveal hiddens gems about a team's record, but only if we look beyond the general counting stats that are the mainstay. I've taken every goal attempt propelled and faced by Stoke during the 2010/11 season, their third year back in the top flight. The declining influence Delap's longthrow has been charted here and the goal scoring duties for the campaign lay at the feet and head of £8 million Kenwyne Jones, the largely unheralded £3 million Jon Walters from Championship side, Ipswich, Tuncay, a £5 million flop who would leave in the January window and an ageing and increasingly injury prone Ricardo Fuller. So the striking talent was broadly consistent with that available to EPL teams from midtable and below. How Many Goals A Slightly Above Average Side Would Expect to Score Given Stoke's Opportunities in 2010/11. Stoke Attack (480) Goals. Shots on Target. Shots Blocked. Expectancy. 69 183 117 Actual Performance. 45 135 128 Expectancy per Shot. 0.15 0.38 0.24 My shot conversion model at the moment contains an over representation of good attacking sides, but we are simply using it here to see how Stoke managed to overcome their unbalanced ratio of shots allowed and shots attempted. Stoke's tactical approach under Pulis has always been one of containment regardless of venue, so the lack of possession is baked into the gameplan. They were outshot in 2010/11 by almost 60 attempts over the season as a whole, but finished 13th with a goal difference of minus two, an extra point away from 10th. The point of origin of each Stoke attempt has been charted and a goal expectancy, accuracy expectation and likelihood of seeing the shot blocked is calculated for each shot. Cumulatively we can then see how many goals an above average attacking team might have scored had they been able to create Stoke's 480 chances from 2010/11. How Many Goals A Slightly Above Average Side Would Expect to Concede Given Stoke's Opponents Opportunities in 2010/11. Stoke Defence (539) Goals. Shots on Target. Shots Blocked. The predicted outcomes of the shots Stoke's defence allowed are then similarly treated and by comparing the two batches off shots we can try to see how Stoke managed to score as many as they conceded despite the large excess of shots aimed at their goal by frustrated opponents. The most significant figure is the expectancy per shot in each table. When Stoke were shooting it averaged 0.15 per attempt, when they were on the receiving end the figure fell to 0.11. So Stoke were creating less shooting or heading opportunities and allowing more, but this was compensated by their shots on average being more likely to result in goals. They were also more likely to be on target, creating rebound possibilities and less likely to be blocked judged on where on the pitch the attempts were taken from. That Stoke's strikeforce didn't manage to match the goal tally from their 480 attempts that was predicted by a model that contains data from the likes of the top five EPL teams shouldn't be surprising. But Stoke scored 45 goals, omitting own goals in 2010/11 by presenting relatively low numbers of high quality chances to predominantly average or below Premiership strikers. Leading to a average season long total in the mid forties. As a group Stoke players who had a goal attempt two years ago weren't that potent, certainly weren't very accurate and had more shots blocked than the top teams......but they were presented with top drawer chances. Kenwyne..."...set them up & I'll put some of them away". An EPL side consists of at least two units and the defence, by contrast overperforms the model. Even though they had an average of two more shots a game to contend with compared to their own team's offensive output, they only conceded 46 goals. Chances created by the opposition were more difficult opportunities, as shown by an expectancy per shot of 0.11 goals compared to 0.15 goals for the Stoke attack. Given Stoke's setup, that was probably a team effort, starting with Jon Walters and working back down the field. Opponents also couldn't match the model's expectation and under shot by 13 goals and that was probably more down to the back four and keeper. Stoke's defensive legion also made many more blocks than predicted, another constant from team's coached by Tony Pulis. So in this case the more numerous shots allowed were of a lower chance quality and intervention by Stoke defenders, which naturally is currently beyond the scope of one man analysis, further reduced the scoring levels.Stoke's 480:539 shot ratio appears poor, but the raw numbers obscure the hard work of the defence and a gameplan designed to produce quality chances for a team then lacking in attacking excellence. Labels: Shot Conversion Rates, Stoke City Who Were Arsenal's Two Footed Marksmen ? Picking the ball up wide left, your new signing races off down the line, rapidly slowing as he's engaged by a covering defender before a stutter step sees him cut inside his opponent giving him an unimpeded route into the box. The keeper meets him ten yards from goal, but with the added protection of a narrow shooting angle. Deliberately, your player opens up his body shape, before curling an exquisite right footer chip wide of the keeper's outspread arms and just inside the angle of post and bar. Everyone's delighted, the manager, the players and most importantly, the fans. And then it hits you....the expensive new signing can't kick with his left foot. Favouring one foot over another is a well known facet of football, anyone who's played football at any level will well recognize that it feels more natural and easier to kick with one foot, usually the right, than the other. It's also well documented that continued practice does enhance your ability to perform a task. Therefore you would expect professional players to be able to overcome the seemingly natural preference for one foot over the other and reduce the ability gap between feet through constant repetition. Many players are listed as either left or right footed, tacitly acknowledging that an ability defined preference exists. So it would be an interesting exercise to see to what extent players default to their natural side when attempting to perform actions that require skill and precision and how and by how much their competence falls away if they attempt a similar skill with their weaker foot. The more extreme the spread of a particular talent within a group, the more pronounced the difference is likely to be between preferred and shunned feet in individual players and so shooting ability is a prime candidate to test. Martin Keown, in his newspaper column late last year highlighted the improvement he has seen in Robin van Persie's right foot. From arriving at Arsenal in 2004, in Keown's opinion the Dutchman had progressed from being almost exclusively left footed to become a genuine two footed goal scoring threat. Preference should be very easy to demonstrate. While some split second chances will require a player to hit the shot with the foot it falls on, more often a player has time to work the ball onto his favourite side and dead ball attempts are almost universally taken with the "good" foot. A Rare Pedidextrous Sportsman. Five Arsenal players took a substantial number of shots at goal in 2010/11 and while it is entirely possible that none of them will still be at the Emirates come kickoff 2012/13, they provide a reasonable large sample to test for "footedness". Nasri, Fabregas, Arshavin, Walcott and van Persie comprise the group and together they attempted over 350 shots at goal and just shy of 80% of those were made with their designated "good" foot. Each of the five players shot more with their natural foot and indeed if Rosicky and Wilshere were added to the mix the lopsided nature of the splits would have been even more pronounced. Rosicky had 24 attempts on goal, of which 23 were with his right foot. His sole left footed effort was blocked at Molineux. Wilshere was even more extreme with 25 left footed shots compared to another sole, blocked right foot one. The element of choice makes these findings unsurprising, although the apparent fanaticism of Wilshere and Rosicky for one foot may be surprising. Injury has unfortunately meant that the former hasn't kicked a ball in anger at all this season and Rosicky merely equaled his 2010/11 left footed tally in 2011/12. Of more interest is how effective were each of the five Arsenal stars who were prepared to shoot with either foot. Once again I've used this model to estimate how likely a shot is to result in a block, a goal or a shot on target. If we compare the expectancies with reality, while accepting all the usual caveats concerning sample size and model accuracy, and split the sample by "good" and "weak" feet we can perhaps see how much drop off in production occurs between the two. The Two Footed Robin van Persie, 2010/11. v Persie,Left Foot (69attempts) Goals. Shot on Target. Shot Blocked. Expectancy From Model. Actual Number v Persie,Right Foot (13 attempts) Actual Number. There certainly appears to be tentative evidence that supports Martin Keown's visual opinion that van Persie is comfortable with either feet in his later Arsenal career. It's easy to be seduced by one outstanding goal with a player's weaker foot into believing that it represents a more general improvement, but Keown's judgement appears sound. Van Persie has an understandable preference to shoot with his natural left foot and he is well ahead of the model's prediction for an average shooter. His shots produce more goals with either feet than an average expectation once shot origin is considered, they are also more accurate and less are blocked. That van Persie is a better than average finisher is a given, but he maintains his superiority regardless of the foot propelling the ball. The Not So Two Footed Andrei Arshavin, 2010/11. Arshavin,Right Foot (49 attempts) Arshavin,Left Foot (21 attempts) The evidence is less compelling in the case of Arshavin. He's above average in terms of goals, shots on target and evading blocked efforts with his favourite right, but below the line in all three categories with his left. These more ambiguous results continue as we move through Arsenal's midfield from 2010/11. Walcott posts van Persie like figures with his right boot, but is only just above average in accuracy and output with a left boot that positively attracts blocks from defenders. Nasri partly mirrors Walcott's performance and Fabregas was a slightly below average shooter with his preferred right and even more disappointing with his weaker left over his last season with the Gunners. Individual player numbers hold more headline grabbing interest than generalisations over a larger group, although the former are often less reliable and the latter prove to be more predictive. Therefore, it seems sensible to combine the data from our group of numerically prolific marksmen in an attempt to gauge the size of the difference between feet. Arshavin, Walcott, Nasri, Fabregas and van Persie Efforts Combined & Sorted By Preferred Foot. Arsenal 5,Preferred Foot.(291) Goals. Shot on Target. Shot Blocked. Expectancy From Model. 23.3 96.7 74.8 Actual Number 34 112 66 Arsenal 5,Weaker Foot.(76) Goals. Shot on Target. Shot Blocked. Expectancy From Model. 8.2 28 17.4 Actual Number. 11 34 21 We've already seen that there exists an 80:20 split in shot numbers and shots by the group's stronger feet outperform average predicted scoring rates by over 45%. This shouldn't surprise, at the moment to maximize numbers, the model comprises shots by strikers, midfielders and defenders and we are dealing with Arsenal's elite scorers here. Shots with the weaker foot only outperform the goal model by 35%. Accuracy is similar in both subsets, but significantly less shots are blocked when players shoot with their natural foot compared to their unnatural side.Speculatively, this may because "wrong" foot shots lack power, giving blockers more time to intervene. Certainly, there is a reluctance to shot from extreme distance with this group's weaker foot, perhaps an admission that such attempts are likely to be fruitless. Shooting distance averages 16 yards in this weaker category, but extends to over 20 when attempts are made with the stronger foot. Overall, the limited data would appear to confirm intuition. Players have a weaker foot and it should be possible in time to estimate the size of this deficiency for different player positions, given more extensive data. The individual splits suggest that some players are able to improve their weaker side and partly bridge the performance gap, while maintaining a preference. This may make them more unpredictable when faced with a shooting opportunity and consequently more dangerous. In his Arsenal career so far, Tomas Rosicky virtually never shoots with his left boot, so only he knows how good or bad his unfavoured side is. Maybe he should be prepared to use his left more frequently before his predictability becomes common knowledge in the EPL. Labels: Arsenal shots at goal, Footballer's weaker foot, shooting efficiency How Wenger Rang The Changes in 2010/11. Once the starting eleven walk on to the pitch at kickoff time, the manger has already played a large part of his hand. "In game" tactical rearrangements and of course substitutions are his only recourse if the game situation turns against him or if he wants to consolidate a strong position. We saw here and here how the course of a season's worth of games were altered by the introduction of substitutes for teams such as Chelsea and Stoke. By mapping the expected points situation for sides pre and post their phase of substitutions, we gained a broad picture of how successful (or lucky) AVB and Tony Pulis had been with their tinkering. Of course the introduction of one or a group of replacements being immediately followed by an upturn in game fortune doesn't necessarily mean that all of the credit should be immediately heaped on the substitutes. Nor should they shoulder all the blame should things go from bad to even worse. Credit or debit should be shared between the 90 minute players as well as the manager for deciding to make adjustments. So in this follow up post, I've tried to isolate some of the individual attacking contributions made by the Arsenal substitutions employed by Wenger during the 2010/11 league season. Much of the easily available data can be used to give a general picture of Wenger's approach to substitutions, but it's probably best not to read too much into these numbers because they may be determined by a multitude of different and competing factors. Injury replacements are obviously enforced, but game situation, depth of squad and upcoming games may also partly determine gameday rotations. Unused bench duty is also a favoured punishment for player misdemeanors by at least one EPL boss. Instead I'll use Wenger's 2010/11 substitution tendencies merely to set the scene. 107 players were substituted into Arsenal's 2010/11 EPL season, so that's an average of just over 2.8 a game. 61% were midfielders, 33% strikers and only 6% defenders. Game position didn't really seem to change Wenger's average response, he was as likely to sub in attackers or midfielders to protect a lead as he was to chase a deficit. The average time of a substitution was just past the 70th minute and the most active 10 minute segment was from the 80th to the 89th minute. 6.5% of the subbed players received the bad news whilst eating their half time orange. Bendtner (14), Rosicky (13) and Arshavin (12) were the most frequently called upon replacements. 70th Minute.......All Change. Goal tally is the most recognised measure of individual offensive production, but it's also a very crude one especially over limited sample sizes. Goal attempts allows a slightly more precise estimation of a player's contribution to his sides's attacking intentions and this approach can be bettered still if we can factor in the quality of chances a substitute is producing in combination with his teammates. Nineteen different substitutes of which 16 were either midfielders or strikers managed only three goals for Wenger in 2010/11, one each from Vela, Arshavin and Walcott. However, if we look instead at the goal attempts of the group, we now have 66 events to analyse. Goal Attempts of Arsenal Subs, 2010/11, Sorted as Strikers, Midfielders and Defenders. Player (mins played as sub) 2010/11. Goal Attempts. Cumulative Goal Expectancy. Cumulative Shot Accuracy Expectancy. Actual No. of Goals. Actual No. of Shots on Target. Bendtner (281) 8 1.1 3.2 0 2 Chamakh (350) 8 1.3 3.2 0 2 Denilson (217) 6 0.3 1.7 0 1 E-Thomas (13) 0 0 0 0 0 van Persie (173) 2 0.1 0.4 0 1 Vela (48) 3 0.3 1.0 1 0 A Diaby (70) 3 0.4 1.2 0 0 Arshavin (347) 7 0.5 2.3 1 2 Eboue (70) 0 0 0 0 0 Fabregas (98) 3 0.2 0.8 0 0 Nasri (16) 2 0.1 0.6 0 0 Ramsey (15) 0 0 0 0 0 Rosicky (341) 12 1.2 4.0 0 4 Song (13) 1 0.3 0.5 0 0 Walcott (198) 9 0.5 2.8 1 3 Wilshere (90) 2 0.2 0.7 0 1 Djourou (66) 0 0 0 0 0 Gibbs (22) 0 0 0 0 0 Squillaci (70) 0 0 0 0 0 At once we see how little information is conveyed by a "goals only" approach. Even simply adding the number of shots on target and total goal attempts begins to enhance the picture of the impact made by each substitute. If we record the pitch co ordinates from where each individual shot originated from we can compare the figures to the goal expectancy model described here and calculate a goal expectancy and accuracy expectancy for each effort. Cumulative totals for each individual player's attempts can begin to be used to estimate a longterm average expectation should the player's 2010/11 shooting exploits prove typical of their future performance. Naturally goal attempts are very limited for individual players. It would be extremely optimistic to expect Song's eyecatchingly high goal expectancy per minute to continue in larger samples, based as it is on just 13 minutes of substitute action, during which he conjured up one shot with a comparatively high chance of success. Similarly, Vela out performed his goal expectancy with one goal from three shots that had a cumulative predicted expectancy of well below half a goal. His figures would almost certainly regress with increased attempts. The most prolific individual shooters, namely Rosicky, Chamakh and Bendtner are seeing their shot accuracy figures trending towards their predicted numbers, but their goal totals are stuck firmly on zero and the figures above do illustrate the problems involved when analysis is done on relatively small sub samples. We can add definition to opinion by summing goal expectancies from a dozen or so shots, but trying to derive certainty from only a handful of individual efforts is ultimately self defeating. To be able to talk with more authority we need to pool the substitutes performances together and compare their performance as a group to that of Arsenal's starters over roughly the same time scale. The Offensive Output of Arsenal's Starters over the Last 20 Minutes compared to that of their Subs. Cumulative Goal Expectancy for All Shots. Actual Number of Goals. Shooting Record of Arsenal Subs. 2010/11 6.3 3 Shooting Record of Arsenal Starters 70th Min Onwards. 2010/11. 18.3 18 Arsenal's subs underperfom their goal expectancy from their 66 attempts by nearly half despite their fresh legs, while the starters perform very close to their expectation over a roughly comparable portion of the match, namely the last 20 minutes when subs are most likely to also be active. If this kind of split performance repeats itself over larger Arsenal populations and is seen in samples of other teams, it may provide evidence that the attacking output from substitutes fails to match those of the starters who play through the entire game. They may be subs for a reason, or it may a quirk of this particular set of samples. Goal expectancy and accuracy estimates are just the start in assessing individual player contribution, the quality of assists is the logical next step. This post should be looked on as a methodology to begin to sort the good player from the not so good and habitual substitutes would logically fall into the latter category. The results of this preliminary trial would suggest that Wenger well knew where his goal generating talent lay in 2010/11. Data for this post was variously gathered from chalkboards, 442's EPL ipad app and an especial thanks to OptaPro. Labels: Evaluating football substitutes, Goal expectancy in football Spotting Genius is Easy, But what about The Rest. Nearly forty years on and it is still a vivid memory. The Blue shirted Swedish defender appears to be in control of the situation. Notwithstanding the instant control, the attacker seems to have few options, he's got the ball wide on his team's left flank, about ten yards from his opponents goalline, but he's facing back down the touchline towards his own half of the pitch. His only real choice is to lay the ball back to a supporting colleague or at best lift a hopeful inswinging cross with his right foot into the congested area. And for a split second he seems to have chosen the latter. The defender sticks out a half hearted left leg to block the expected response. He's induced the cross from the attacker and from that angle and with no real intended target it's almost certain to be cleared or claimed by his keeper. But then it happens. Instead of the cross, the attacker deftly caresses the ball back through his own legs with his right instep. Instantly he pivots on his standing, left leg and sprints after his own pass towards the now undefended byeline, showing only his black number 14 on his Orange shirt and a blur of attacking intent to his bemused marker. Ladies and gentlemen, the Cruyff Turn. A moment of supreme skill as well as theatre and recognisable as such to anyone who saw it. Unfortunately, it's not always as easy to separate the skill from the mere mundane in football as the talent shows itself in minute improvements in efficiency of passing, quickness of brain or variation in power or placement. Increasingly analysis is turning to rate statistics to attempt the classify a pecking order for talent based footballing actions. Every transfer target now comes with his numbers attached, shot conversion rate, cross conversion rate, pass conversion rate, the list goes on. So it's vitally important that we have some level of confidence in these type of figures. How, why and even if the quoted statistics are causatively correlated to match outcome would appear to be the most obvious course of the initial investigation and that should be followed by how much strength we should attach to players who have recorded impressive or not so impressive records from limited sample sizes. However, there is one stage we need to evaluate before these processes are even applied to the raw numbers. The most fundamental question that is rarely asked is "Is the factor we are measuring even a skill"? or are we simply seeing random fluctuations in performance rates that are entirely down to chance. Once we have confirmed our intuition and found evidence that we are indeed looking at a skill, we next need to know how much of a skill it is. Only then can we start to begin to know how many observations we need to make of a group of players before that skill begins to shine through. Solving the "is it a skill and how much of a skill is it" ? problem would seem straightforward. The natural starting point is the player's raw conversion rate. So imagine you've identified an attribute that you've seen on a pitch and you want to purchase a player who displays that attribute. I don't want to confuse things by picking an obscure skill that may or may not be almost entirely luck based, so we'll just call it "The Attribute". The success rate at completing our particular attribute in a group of similar players averages exactly 10%. Let's imagine you've got a list of 50 prospective purchases and their success rate over their last 100 occasions of attempting to perform your team's desired footballing task. Below I've listed the top 5 and bottom 5 performers. How many Success Were Recorded by Player's Performing "The Attribute". Player. Number of Successes in 100 Attempts. Success Rate. Price ? 1st Ranked. 17 17% 2nd Ranked. 16 16% 3rd Ranked. 16 16% 4th Ranked. 15 15% 46th Ranked. 6 6% So who do you buy? If you're Manchester City or Chelsea and money is no problem, you buy one of the top five, probably driving up the price to unrealistically high level. If you're Stoke you pick up number 48 on a free transfer, possibly with a history of off field problems. The catch is that the group from which the above table is just a part, was actually generated randomly. I set the success rate to 10% and over 100 different observations for 50 different players, this is the range of outcomes that appear solely through chance. If you broke the bank to buy the top ranked player, then you're out of luck because he doesn't have any skill when it comes to excelling at the attribute, because no one has. The table makes it appear that skill is involved because that is the kind of distribution of successes and failures that people expect to see if skill is a factor. Player 1's 17 successes came about entirely by chance, as did Player 50's mere three successes. Fortunately, it's possible to take a mathematical look at the spread of the distribution of successes and failures for a group of players and be able to tell if it has likely arisen through chance alone or if it has been skewed by external factors that could be attributed to a varying level of skills within the group. Applying these methods to the tabulated numbers above confirms that I generated the distribution randomly. However, if I use the same methods to look at such attributes as a players ability to create chances that are converted in open play, you find that the distribution of converted chances that are turned into goals doesn't resemble a random distribution. Another factor, such as a combination of skills spread between the provider and the scorer is present. If we further look at the ability of players to provide clear cut chances for their team mates, we find that not only does that appear to be a talent, but it is a much rarer talent than any other that I have currently looked at. This was intended as an excuse to post a photo of my Cruyff shirt and discuss chance creation. Instead it's turned into a post on the steps needed to validate, analyse and produce reliable and credible static player rate statistics that are beginning to flood the blogosphere. Knowing the spread of talent within a group of players is vital to giving you an idea about the reliability of your conclusions over a limited number of observations. In short, you need to know if you're likely buying a lucky or a talented player and how much of your desired skill is down to player talent. I'll deal with chance creation later, but at least I kept in the Cruyff reference. Labels: Johan Cruyff Turn, Luck and talent in football .............and Statistics.What Park Ji-Sung's 15 Yard Shot Conversion Rate Really Tells Us. The world of football was stunned yesterday, when word leaked out of QPR's audacious swoop for Manchester United's Park Ji-Sung. OK I'm exaggerating somewhat, but it was certainly a news worthy event and the transfer briefly trended on Twitter. One tweet caught my eye when ESPN declared that "the biggest drop off was his finishing" and backed the view up with his stats in graphical form from 2010/11 and 2011/12. Five goals from seven non blocked shots in the former season compared to one goal from five in the latter. So compelling evidence that QPR had bought a player whose finishing had well and truely "dropped off" over the previous two years? Park Ji-Sung. The counter argument quite naturally should start with the fact that headline conclusions are being made on the evidence of very small sample sizes. Seven attempts in 2010/11 and five in the following season. Sample's of that size are going to see conversion rates bounce around considerably just through random chance. In writing the previous posts that looked at randomness in footballing rate statistics I found that the proportions of chance and skill converged after around 30 shots for individuals. So a player could produce the kind of numbers in single figure attempts that Park Ji-Sung posted through a lot of luck and no drop of in true talent or shot converting ability between the two seasons. His high strike rate in 2010/11 on such a small sample size is almost certain to regress towards the mean in future years. However, there's also one statistical finesse that appears to have been used here. Park's conversion rate has been restricted to shots from 15 yards and has excluded efforts that were blocked. The latter proviso appears to be down to an individual data supplier's particular policy, so we'll ignore that for the moment. But the choice of a 15 yard cut off point for shots is curious. Why not 18 yards or 12, there's an 18 yard line and a 12 yard penalty spot after all. Or why not use all of Park's goal attempts. 17 in 2010/11 and 12 in 2011/12. Park's Shot Record 2010/11 Sorted By Distance.(Red Shots <15 yards,Old Gold >15 yards). Opponent. Shot Outcome. Probability of Shot Being On Target. Probability of Shot Being Blocked. Probability of a Goal. Wolves On Target 0.48 0.12 0.15 Blackpool Goal 0.51 0.16 0.29 Blackburn Goal 0.50 0.18 0.30 Arsenal Goal 0.47 0.20 0.24 Blackburn Blocked 0.46 0.19 0.22 Wolves Blocked 0.43 0.21 0.16 Wolves Goal 0.43 0.22 0.18 Tottenham Off Target 0.35 0.18 0.06 Fulham Blocked 0.38 0.21 0.10 Fulham On Target 0.41 0.25 0.17 Arsenal Blocked 0.32 0.22 0.05 Wolves Off Target 0.27 0.20 0.02 Chelsea On Target 0.22 0.21 0.01 Man City Blocked 0.26 0.26 0.03 Cumulative Probability. 6.6 Compared to 6 Actual Shots on Target 3.5 Compared to 6 Actual Blocks. 2.2 Compared to 5 Actual Goals. Above are all of Park's shots from 2010/11, including all of his blocked efforts, which should be ignored because they don't seem to have formed part of the ESPN tweet. They have been sorted by distance, with the closest shots listed first. The shots against teams marked in red are from within 15 yards and they appear to be the shots that are being described by ESPN. So in the 2010/11 data the selected end point of 15 yards comes almost immediately after his furthest goal. The shots marked in old gold originate further than 15 yards from goal and the first "orange" shot against Fulham drew a blank and didn't make it into the set that "demonstrates" Park's potency because it was taken a couple of inches outside of the chosen cut off point. By chopping the data end point at 15 yards some unproductive efforts are omitted that would have reduced his conversion rate and made his 2010/11 season appear less impressive in it's raw unregressed form. This kind of slice and dice approach to data not only reduces sample size, it also leads to some very misleading conclusions. For example if I move Park's end point even closer to goal at the six yard line, his conversion rate becomes 0 from 1 or zero percent! Park's Shot Record 2011/12 Sorted By Distance. (Red Shots <15 yards,Old Gold >15 yards). Everton On Target 0.49 0.15 0.22 Wigan On Target 0.46 0.20 0.22 Wigan Goal 0.46 0.20 0.21 Man City Off Target 0.37 0.18 0.07 Arsenal Off Target 0.40 0.22 0.12 Norwich Blocked 0.32 0.19 0.03 Wigan Off Target 0.40 0.25 0.16 Liverpool Off Target 0.31 0.24 0.05 Tottenham On Target 0.35 0.28 0.10 Cumulative Probability 4.4 Compared to 5 Actual Shots on Target 2.8 Compared to 3 Actual Blocks. 1.3 Compared to 2 Actual The ability to demonstrate whatever you chose by pre selecting a convenient end point is further highlighted when we look at Park's "drop off" season in 2011/12. If the same 15 yard line is chosen, happily for the preferred narrative the line falls a couple of feet in front of his goal against Arsenal,eliminating it from the 2011/12 sample set. Therefore, ESPN can report his 2011/12 conversion rate from 15 yards as 1 from 5 (20%), instead of the 2 from 6 (33%) if they'd gone the extra two and a bit feet requiring inclusion of his small part in United's 8-2 rout of the Gunners. I've no problem with data like this being used as part of a "this is what happened" narrative. But small sample sizes such as were used here can tell us very little about a player's decline or improvement from one season to the next and once convenient end points start being drawn to exaggerate an already unconfirmed difference between one season's performance and the next...........well. Labels: ESPN stats, Park Ji-Sung, Shot Conversion Rates Shooting First Is No Advantage in a Penalty Shooto... .............and Statistics.What Park Ji-Sung's 15... Historically Wasteful or Just Randomness.Euro 2012... In Defence of The FIFA Rankings. The EPL's Best Keeper.End of Season Version 2011/1... Projecting Cross Conversion Rates. Euro 2012 Performance Ratings.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line411
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__label__cc	0.529763	0.470237	Charity Bangs Told You Don’t Like the New Testing Prices? Quit “This morning I got an email from one of my people in the trenches,” Robert Black was saying on his Thursday afternoon show. “She forwarded me a young girl’s [Charity Bangs] conversation with Mr. Pete. The tweets proceeded to go something like this. “Mr. Pete: I don’t mind testing every two weeks but the new pricing is unfair. We need to speak up. “Charity bangs replied. Hahaha. Get ready for people to tell you if you don’t like it you can quit. I spoke up days ago and got hell for it.” “Charity Bangs, I love this girl,” said Black. “My question would be- I’d like to hear from Charity Bangs herself and have a real conversation with her. She’s got spunk and pizzazz, and I think this girl could be a great community organizer. Charity Bangs was told to get her shine box. I’d like to know from her who were the people that gave her shit and told her to quit? “Here’s my question, and this will tell me if she’s got the heart or is just pretending. This question is going to tell me and everybody if you got the heart to be a leader. I want to know who said that to you. Were they real industry names who told you that, and I’d love for you to tell me who they are. “If they’re not industry people and just retard twitter yahoos, you are giving the appearance of having a voice and pretending to have a voice. If legitimate people in the business told you that, I would love to know who. “I’ll take a smart water bottle and insert that into their rectum. Whoever would tell you that- if they’re in the business- would never have the balls to say that in public. They are gutless punks who I will make a fuck puppet out of. “Do you realize someone is actually saying this to a performer? What people don’t understand in our business is the people who make these comments all come from companies that take care of them, be it health insurance, six figure salaries. They are the 1% with the rich man’s attitude. The other 99% are working their asses off for shit money.” Black said it’s the 1% taking the attitude that if you don’t like it, lump it. “The reality is, you shouldn’t be paying for your test. But you have Christian Mann stating in his bullshit jerk off letter there’s companies that won’t shoot you unless you go through PASS. And you have people like Mr. Marcus that infects talent and swears that TTS hid his tests for him. Then we have testing that you can receive from the county for free or AHF for free. “Then you have a girl who’s saying aren’t these costs getting a little crazy and everybody shits on her. That is the elitist 1% thought attitude that exists in our business. 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__label__cc	0.538298	0.461702	Season Over for Smith; QB to Have Surgery TOPICS:alex-smithdr.james andrews Posted By: CJ September 10, 2008 Well, it seems as though the Alex Smith Era in San Francisco is nearly over. The No. 1 overall pick of the 2005 draft was diagnosed with a broken bone in his right shoulder today, according to ESPN.com, putting him out for the season and making him likely to be cut by the Niners in the off-season. Smith was place on injured reserve, ending a season in which many had expected Smith to start at quarterback in Mike Martz’s first season as the Niners offensive coordinator. Dr. James Andrews, who has performed surgery on Smith in the past, confirmed the team’s diagnosis of Smith’s broken shoulder. Smith still has $24.6 million left on his contract over the next two seasons, so it’s likely the Niners won’t want to pay that exorbitant salary for a quarterback who won’t even play. It seems like ages ago that Smith was coming off a 2,890 yard, 16 touchdown campaign that showed his promise. That was in 2006, when Norv Turner captained the offensive coordinator chair for the Niners. Jamie Martin, who worked with Martz in St. Louis from 2001-04, was signed by the Niners to presumably take over as the third-string quarterback. Injuries, News QB Smith Has Another Shoulder Surgery Mistakes, Mare Game-winning FG Help Seahawks Edge 49ers 20-17 49ers QB Alex Smith suffered a concussion against Cowboys Gore Reaches Milestone In 49ers Clubbing Of Lions 20-6 Be the first to comment on "Season Over for Smith; QB to Have Surgery"	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line449
__label__wiki	0.921302	0.921302	Transfer Rumours: Cavani to Chelsea, Pereyra to Torino, Obiang to Milan & More The January transfer window is now in full swing and clubs across the continent are beginning to make significant moves to reinforce their squads ahead of the tests that lie before them in the second half of the season. With the business end of the campaign fast approaching, here is a selection of six major rumours doing the rounds. 6. Liverpool to Offer Star New Deal Amid Milan Interest After a mini-revival, Daniel Sturridge has fallen back down the pecking order at Liverpool and is largely on the periphery of Jurgen Klopp’s striking ranks, with the Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah preferred in the central role. However, the English striker has displayed flashes of brilliance in front of goal when given his chance at Anfield this term, and his undoubted pedigree is apparently of interest to a number of clubs across Europe. According to the Mail, Milan, Inter and Monaco are all keen. It is said that a mutual will between player and club for Sturridge not to depart Liverpool in January could see the Reds offer the forward a new contract to stave off any outside interest. The league leaders do not want to sell this month, whilst Sturridge wants to fight for the title. 5. Serie A Giants to Do Battle Over West Ham Midfielder Pedro Obiang’s place in the West Ham engine room has not been as guaranteed under Manuel Pellegrini as had been the case in previous seasons, amid the continued development of Declan Rice and the ongoing importance of captain Mark Noble. However, that has not stopped Equatorial Guniea international midfielder attracting interest from overseas. According to Sky Italia, via Calciomercato, Obiang is set to be the subject of a transfer tug of war between Serie A rivals Milan and Roma. The West Ham midfielder has started just nine of his 13 Premier League appearances this term. However, having previously featured for Sampdoria in Serie A, Obiang could be an ideal addition for a Milan side in search of midfield reinforcements. 4. Agent Threatens Exit for Napoli Star Amid Chelsea Links Maurizio Sarri wasted no time in imprinting his philosophy and playing style of his new Chelsea side after being appointed as the Blues’ new head coach during the summer. The Italian even brought Jorginho with him from Napoli as a key exponent of his footballing methods. According to the agent of Elseid Hysaj, Jorginho is not the only star of the Serie A giants who could have followed Sarri to west London – and still could yet if he is not given more playing time. As quoted by Football Italia, Hysaj’s agent said of the full back: “He could have gone with [Maurizio] Sarri to Chelsea, but [Carlo] Ancelotti blocked everything. “But if Hysaj is no longer valued by the coach we’ll ask for a transfer in January.” Hysaj has started just one of Napoli’s last four games, and the Albanian’s agent’s comments suggest the right back could move on this month. Hysaj could provide competition for Cesar Azpilicueta. 3. Serie A Side in Talks to Sign Southampton Misfit Manolo Gabbiadini has endured a tough time at Southampton since moving to St. Mary’s in a £14m deal from Napoli in 2017, scoring just 10 goals in 51 Premier League appearances for the Saints. With the Italian still out of favour under new Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl, Gabbiadini’s former club Sampdoria are apparently set to offer the misfiring forward an escape route from the Premier League. According to journalist Fabrizio Romano, the two clubs are in talks over a deal. Though it has not been said whether any potential return to Serie A would be on loan or on a permanent deal, it seems that a move back to his homeland is very much on the cards as Gabbiadini seeks to reignite his faltering career away from Southampton. 2. Italians Offer Player in Swoop for Watford Star Roberto Pereyra has become a star turn for Watford since completing a move to the Premier League side from Serie A giants Juventus in 2016. The 27-year-old midfielder has scored 13 goals in 66 appearances for the Hornets. Pereyra has continued to be a standout figure in Javi Gracia’s setup this term and the Argentine’s form has not gone unnoticed overseas. According to Tuttosport, via Inside Futbol, Serie A side Torino want to bring the Watford star back to Italy. It is said that Torino were interested in signing Pereyra last summer, after seeing the midfielder’s stock rise during his time in the Premier League. The Italians would apparently be prepared to offer midfielder Vittorio Parigini to sweeten any potential deal with the Hornets. 1. Chelsea Eye Uruguay Superstar to Solve Striker Problem Chelsea have been sorely lacking a cutting edge in their front line in recent weeks, as was laid bare during the Blues’ recent 0-0 draw at home to a struggling Southamptton, with Maurizio Sarri’s decision to deploy Eden Hazard through the middle having mixed results. The Blues generally lack a commanding focal point in the centre of attack with the Belgian forward as a ‘false nine,’ and Chelsea are said to be considering their options in the January transfer window. According to Alfredo Pedulla, PSG star Edinson Cavani is a potential target. Gonzalo Higuain is also said to be of interest, though the Argentine’s loan deal from Juventus to Milan complicates any potential deal for Chelsea. The Blues are said to be testing the waters over a move for Cavani, who has scored 10 goals in 11 Ligue 1 appearances this term. Previous Previous post: Atletico Madrid Captain Diego Godin Agrees Free Transfer to Join Inter in the Summer Next Next post: Bayern Munich Icon Arjen Robben Claims He’s Received ‘Many Offers’ Amid Interest From Inter	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line460
__label__wiki	0.565611	0.565611	André de Quadros Primary and Secondary School MSUC VOICES 21C Ensembles Conducted Presentations, Projects, Concerts > Arts and Health “Choral Music: Healing People, Saving Lives, Making a Difference.” ACDA Eastern Division, Boston, February 13. "Trinity Wall Street Singers Visiting a Prison: A Reflection.” Panelist, ACDA Eastern Division, Boston, February 13. “Collaborating Across Campus Boundaries and Prison Walls: The Arts at Play at Boston University.” Panelist and chair, ArtsRx: Creative Venture, Wellbeing and the New Humanities, National Conference of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities, University of Colorado, November 4. “Empowering Song: Creative Partnerships in a Collegiate Program.” Co-presentation with Trey Pratt, 6th Annual Conference on Higher Education in Prison, Nashville, November 5. “Harmony Within and Beyond the Walls: Choral Singing in U.S. Prisons.” Co-panelist with Mary Cohen, Judy Bowers, Stephanie Henry, Jody Kerchner, Catherine Roma, 6th Annual Conference on Higher Education in Prison, Nashville, November 5. “Sounding Displacement and Belonging: Music and Refugees in Contemporary Germany.” Discussant, 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Washington, DC, November. "Can We Make a Difference, and How?” S.MA.R.T. Presentation, American Choral Directors Association, Western Division, Pasadena, California, February, 27. “Pain, Promise, Potential in Music: Global Perspective on Music & Social Change.” Peace United Church of Christ, Santa Cruz, California, February 29. “Global Perspective on Music & Social Change.” Cabrillo College, Santa Cruz, California, March 1. "Saving the World through Music - Really?” Roosevelt University, Chicago, April 4. “Unending Pain, Broken Promises, and the Mobilizing Power of Music.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 7. "Empowering Song: Connecting Choral Music and Human Values.” Workshop/seminar, Sveriges Körförbund, in collaboration with the Eric Ericson International Choral Centre, Stockholm, May 27. “Singing and Suffering.” Co-presentations (workshops) with Andrew Clark (Harvard University), Symposium on Church Choral Music, Bandung, Indonesia, June 10, 11, 12. “Empowering Song." Co-presentations (workshops) with Andrew Clark (Harvard University), Symposium on Church Choral Music, Bandung, Indonesia, June 10, 11. ”Empowering Song. Workshop, Music & Humanity Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, 19 August. “Subverting mainstream narratives: the arts and social justice: Finding Beauty, Building Community, Interrogating Power in American Prisons.” Seminar, The Victoria Institute, Victoria University, Melbourne, October 14. “The Road to Making a Difference.” Keynote, The Road to Rights International Summit & Peace Expo, Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 9. Israeli, Palestinian, Swedish composed and improvised program, Common Ground Voices, Magnus Lindgren (clarinet, flute, saxophone), Mousa Elias (oud), Tiago Loei (percussion), cond. A. de Quadros, concert in the presence of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, Eric Ericson Hall, Stockholm, Sweden, February 9. A cappella program, Manado State University Choir, cond. A. de Quadros in collaboration with Harvard University Radcliffe Choral Society, Gereja Perak Sorong, Manado, Indonesia, June 7. MOZART: Coronation Mass, Linda Hartono (soprano), Rangga Kulas (alto), Paul Phoenix (tenor), Ferry Chandra (bass), PSM UNIMA, Jinggaswara ITENAS Choir, Eastern Chamber Singers Philippines, Studio Cantorum Choir and orchestra, cond. A. de Quadros, UKM, Bandung, Indonesia, June 11. “Pain and Promise.” A cappella program, VOICES 21C, cond. A. de Quadros, église St Etienne, CHORALP Rencontres Chorales Internationales, Vallouise, France, July 18. “Le Combat et la Fuite.” A cappella program, Concert de clôture des rencontres chorales, église Sainte Catherine, CHORALP Rencontres Chorales Internationales, Briançon, France, July 22. A cappella program, MoB Choir, PSM UNIMA, Bali Cantat, 5th Bali International Choir Festival, Sanur, July 28. A cappella program, Manado State University Choir, cond. A. de Quadros, Music & Humanity Festival, Eric Ericson Hall, August 21. “Pain and Promise.” A cappella program, VOICES 21C, cond. A. de Quadros, Boston University Concert Hall, October 9. Works by Ledbetter and Salim Bali, Five School Choral Festival, middle school choirs of Gordon, Lincoln, Moses Brown, Providence Country Day, and Wheeler schools, Providence, Rhode Island, November 1. A cappella program, seminar workshop group, Hallel, Yad Hashmona, December 5. Other: artistic directorships, clinics, workshops “Reaching In, Reaching Out,” a workshop for potential community choral leaders, Eric Ericson International Choral Centre, Stockholm, Sweden, February 6. Clinic, Shenzhen High School Lily Choir (Shengzhen Gao Zhong Bai He He Chang Tuan; 深圳高中百合合唱团), Boston, February 13. “New Age Conducting,” conducting masterclasses, 1st Manado International Choral Expo, Manado, Indonesia, March 9-11. Clinic, Master of Breakthrough Choir, Manado, Indonesia, March 9. Clinic, Manado Catholic Choir, Manado, Indonesia, March 9. Performing Social Justice Residency, Roosevelt University, Chicago, April 4-6. Workshop, Harvard Radcliffe Choral Society, Harvard University, February 1, April 11. Co-presenter, Prison Arts Roundtable and Forum, Boston University, May 4. Workshops, Adolf Fredriks musikklasser (Farsta), Sweden, May 26. Workshops, Lilla Akademien Musikgymnasium, Stockholm, May 27. “Music and the Brain: Singing and Moving for Living Well.” Forum presentations, Conversations for the Curious, May 16, June 16, Melbourne. Artistic Director, CONDUCTING 21C: Musical Leadership for a New Century, Eric Ericson International Choral Centre, Sweden, August 20-24. Director, Choir Lab, CONDUCTING 21C, Eric Ericson Hall, Stockholm, August 22, 23. Workshop with Afghan refugee/asylum seekers youth, Adolf Fredriks Musikklasser, Music & Humanity Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, August 22. Workshop, Harvard-Radcliffe Music in Hospitals and Nursing Homes using Entertainment as Therapy (MIHNUET), Harvard University, September 4. Workshop, Harvard-Radcliffe Music in Hospitals and Nursing Homes using Entertainment as Therapy (MIHNUET), Brookline nursing home, September 11. Co-leader, music workshop pilot program, Judge Connelly Youth Center, Roslindale, MA, October-November. Workshops, Piccola Voce, Camberwell Girls Grammar Junior School, Melbourne, October. Workshops, Years 3 &4, Camberwell Girls Grammar Junior School, Melbourne, October. Workshops, Vivace, Camberwell Girls Grammar Junior School, Melbourne, October. Workshop, Sawa Choir, Shefa-‘Amr, Galilee, November 27. Workshop, Al Baath Arab Voices of Galilee, Shefa-‘Amr, Galilee, November 27. Masterclass, Bat-Yam High School Choir, Tel Aviv, November 29. Masterclass, Koral, Tel Aviv, November 29. Masterclass, Voca Tikva, Tel Aviv, November 29. Masterclass, Sharonit Choir, Tel Aviv, November 30. Masterclass, Bat-Kol, Tel Aviv, November 30. Masterclass, Neve-Shir women’s choir, Tel Aviv, November 30. Workshop, Meitar ensemble Yad Hashmona, Israel, December 2. Seminar leader, Hallel annual choral workshop, Yad Hashmona, Israel, December 3-5. Peer-reviewer, International Journal of Inclusive Education. PhD thesis external examiner, University of Melbourne, Australia. Guest co-editor, International Journal of Inclusive Education. Member, ACDA National Standing Committee for Diversity Initiatives. Artistic Director & Conductor, Common Ground Voices. Honorary Artistic Advisor, The 1st Manado International Choral Expo. Artistic Director, 5th Symposium on Church Choral Music, Bandung, Indonesia. Adjunct Professor (honorary), The Victoria Institute, Victoria University, Australia. Honorary Professor, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, Guangzhou, China. Artistic Director, London International Music Festival. Artistic Director, VOICES 21C. 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__label__cc	0.640449	0.359551	Aqualyra Copyright & Contact Info Free Track! Contraalto (blog) It's out! Hannu Lepisto's new single is co-produced by me, and I'm doing backing vocals on the main track, Damn Little Devil You during the chorus, and I did a bit of arranging for both tracks and a teensy bit of percussion on the main track during the end instrumental break :-) Damn Little Devil You, coproduced by Aqualayra (and on backing vocs!) released Dec. 11, 2015 album co-production, female vocals We are getting awesome coverage on ITunes Finland's New & Noteworthy for the album I co-produced, Have A Beautiful Life by Hannu Lepisto. it went to #1 in the their Alternative category and has been on their N&N from Dec. 11th until today (January 6th)! Have A Beautiful Life On ITunes I co-produced Hannu Lepisto's #1 album HAVE A BEAUTIFUL LIFE as well as singing backing vocals and writing some arrangements on many songs. Please click the button to see it on Itunes. We have had some kickass reviews. Vents magazine calls it "the album of the year"! Work is underway on both an EP and a double EP. You can hear a demo version of one of my original songs, "Lord Of Snow & Ashes" that will be on the double EP. below. Music, lyrics & arrangements copyright, Aqualyra. Songs registered and lodged with The Songwriters' Association of Canada's Song Vault. Website Design By Victorian Underground Music, All Rights Reserved. Photographs copyright, C. Dianne Murray.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line465
__label__wiki	0.794542	0.794542	Home » Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, Rickettsia infections Agent properties and epidemiology Recommendations to avoid zoonotic transmission Edited November 1, 2016 These guidelines were drafted by Maria Grazia Pennisi and co-authored by Alan Radford and Severine Tasker et al. They were published in the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery 19, 2017, 542-548 by Maria Grazia Pennisi et al. Anaplasma spp., Ehrlichia spp. and Rickettsia spp. are vector-borne pathogens infecting many mammalian species, but causing disease in very few of them. Anaplasma phagocytophilum is the most important feline pathogen among them and co-infections are possible. Some species (A. phagocytophilum, Ehrlichia chaffeensis, Ehrlichia ewingii, Rickettsia conorii, Rickettsia rickettsii, Rickettsia felis, Rickettsia typhi) are of zoonotic concern. The geographical distribution of Anaplasma, Ehrlichia and Rickettsia pathogens overlaps with that of their competent vectors (ticks or fleas). Little information is available on the pathogenesis of these agents in cats. Clinical signs are usually reported soon after tick infestation. They are mostly non-specific and consist of fever, anorexia, lethargy. Joint pain may occur. Blood or buffy-coat smear evaluation may be useful for cytological diagnosis of infections with Ehrlichia and Anaplasma spp. Antibodies to rickettsial infections can be detected by immunofluorescence (IF) test and ELISA, but cross-reactions exist between organisms of the same genus. Blood PCR analysis is a sensitive and specific method for confirming diagnosis at the onset of acute clinical signs before starting therapy when antibody testing is usually still negative. Doxycycline is the first choice antibiotic for treating rickettsial infections. Regular application of appropriate ectoparasiticide spot on or collars protects cats from infection. In endemic areas blood donors should be tested for rickettsial blood-borne infections. Infected cats are “sentinels” of the presence of rickettsial pathogens in ticks and fleas in a given geographical area and they signal a risk for people exposed to vectors. Direct contact with cat saliva should be avoided because of the potential contamination by R. felis as well as by other zoonotic pathogens. Obligate intracellular Gram negative coccoid organisms of the Anaplasma, Ehrlichia and Rickettsia genera are vector-borne members of the Rickettsiales order infecting humans and a wide variety of domestic and wild animals worldwide (Allison and Little, 2013). They generally have a wide host specificity, considering that many mammalian species can be infected. Importantly, some hosts might serve as reservoirs of infection; however, susceptibility to disease is usually more restricted. Anaplasma, Ehrlichia and Rickettsia are difficult to culture in vitro; molecular genetics opened new avenues to study their infection biology (Allison and Little, 2013). Compared to dogs, these pathogens have been generally less studied in cats (Table 1). Ehrlichia genus Countries in which the infection has been detected E. canis Canada USA Brazil Portugal E. chaffeensis USA Brazil E. ewingii USA Ehrlichia spp. Italy USA Kenia France Anaplasma genus A. phagocytophilum USA Sweden Finland Poland Switzerland Germany Italy Spain A. platys USA Brazil A. platys-like Italy A. bovis Japan Rickettsia genus R. rickettsi USA R. conori Spain R. massiliae Spain Rickettsia spp. Italy Table 1: Members of the Ehrlichia, Anaplasma and Rickettsia genera detected in cats in various countries. Please note that the rickettsial infections may occur even in additional countries, however, not published so far. Therefore it is possible that cats are infected in a larger range of countries, not listed in this table, particularly in areas where the competent tick vectors are abundant (see the text). Anaplasma and Ehrlichia spp. are tick-borne pathogens of the Anaplasmataceae family and are pleomorphic intravacuolar organisms that replicate in haemopoietic cells. They give rise to cytoplasmic inclusion bodies: small elementary bodies (0.2-0.4 µm diameter), larger reticulate bodies and morulae (up to 2-6 µm). Anaplasma phagocytophilum replicates in myeloid cells (mostly in neutrophils; Fig. 1) and is the agent of granulocytotropic anaplasmosis. It infects persons and a wide range of animal species worldwide, especially in the Northern hemisphere. It is the most important feline pathogen of the Anaplasma genus. Wild small mammals are the natural reservoirs. Antibody prevalence to A. phagocytophilum in cats has been reported as 4.5-33.3% in Italy (Ebani and Bertelloni, 2014; Persichetti et al., 2016), 2.0-8.0% in Spain (Solano-Gallego et al., 2006; Ayllón et al., 2012), 16.2% in Germany (Hamel et al., 2012), 22.1% in Sweden (Elfving et al., 2015) and 1.8-38.0% in the USA (Magnarelli et al., 2005; Billeter et al., 2007; Hegarty et al., 2015). Anaplasma phagocytophilum DNA was recently amplified in 0.4% of blood samples from cats admitted to veterinary clinics in South Germany (Bergmann et al., 2015). Fig. 1. Presence of Anaplasma spp morulae (arrows) in neutrophils. Reprinted with permission from Adaszek et al., 2013. Anaplasma platys replicates in mature platelets and is the agent of thrombocytotropic anaplasmosis, a disease well documented worldwide in dogs (Sainz et al., 2015). In cats, it has been occasionally detected by PCR analysis (Lima et al., 2010; Qurollo et al., 2014; Hegarty et al., 2015). Anaplasma bovis has also been found by PCR in feline blood samples from Japan (Sasaki et al., 2012). Recently a novel, unclassified A. platys-like strain from cats was characterized in Sardinia (Italy). This strain, despite its tropism for platelets, is closely related to others identified in ruminants (Zobba et al., 2015). Ehrlichia canis is the agent of canine monocytotropic ehrlichiosis. This disease was described in tropical and temperate areas worldwide, with the exception of Australia. Ehrlichia chaffeensis is the agent of human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis reported mainly from the USA. The granulocytotropic Ehrlichia ewingii has been evidenced in dogs and humans in the Midwestern and Southern United States. E. canis has been detected by PCR in blood samples from cats (Breitschwerdt et al., 2002; Oliveira et al., 2009; Ayllón et al., 2012; Braga et al., 2012, 2013, 2014; Maia et al., 2014; Hegarty et al., 2015; André et al., 2015). Less frequently, E. chaffeensis and E. ewingii were found (Braga et al., 2012; Hegarty et al., 2015). Cats seropositive for E. canis (6.0-18.0%) have been reported in Europe (Aguirre et al., 2004; Ortuño et al., 2005; Solano-Gallego et al., 2006; Ayllón et al., 2012; Ebani and Bertelloni, 2014; Persichetti et al., 2016), 5.5% in Brazil (Braga et al., 2012) and 0.7% in the USA (Hegarty et al., 2015). Another member of the Anaplasmataceae family that leads to Neoehrlichiosis is ‘Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis’ (genus ‘Candidatus Neoehrlichia’). This emerging tick-borne agent has been found mainly in immunocompromised patients, in ticks and rodents and recently also in two dogs (Diniz et al., 2011; Hofmann-Lehmann et al., 2016), but so far not in cats. The infection may be underdiagnosed because diagnostic assays are not yet widely available. The Rickettsiaceae family includes the spotted fever group (SFG) and the typhus group agents (Allison and Little, 2013). More than 20 species are included in the SFG of the Rickettsia genus, some of them being important human pathogens. Historically, the most important zoonotic agents are R. conorii (the cause of Mediterranean spotted fever) in the Old World, and R. rickettsii (the agent of Rocky Mountains spotted fever) in the Americas. However, recent molecular studies have increasingly focused on other rickettsial species that may be involved in human clinical disease manifestations. Rickettsia massiliae for example is now recognised as the most widely distributed Rickettsia species that affects humans, being found worldwide (Brouqui et al., 2007). Rickettsia rickettsii and R. conorii are both transmitted by ticks, infect dogs and may cause a clinical condition in dogs. Less information is available about the effect of these agents in cats. Feline infections caused by R. massiliae and R. conorii have been confirmed by both PCR and antibody testing in endemic areas of Spain and Portugal (Solano-Gallego et al., 2006; Alves et al., 2009; Vilhena et al., 2013; Segura et al., 2014), whereas cats seropositive for R. rickettsii have been reported in the USA (Case et al., 2006). Rickettsia felis is worldwide an emerging flea-borne SFG human pathogen frequently detected in Ctenocephalides felis, less often in other flea species (Brouqui et al., 2007). C. felis is the vector and the recognised reservoir of R. felis, which is vertically transmitted to successive generations of fleas (Wedincamp and Foil, 2002). Recent studies carried out in some parts of Europe have shown that Ctenocephalides infection rates range from 2.8% in Albania (Silaghi et al., 2012) to 54.2% in Andalusia (Márquez et al., 2006). Cats are susceptible to R. felis infection and seroconvert after exposure to infected fleas. However, they are probably no reservoir hosts because of a short-term bacteraemia, with blood PCR testing usually negative in antibody positive cats (Wedincamp and Foil, 2000; Hawley et al., 2007; Segura et al., 2014; Persichetti et al., 2016). In rare cases, R. felis DNA can be amplified also from the skin or gingiva of cats, blood PCR testing being negative (Lappin and Hawley, 2009). It is unknown whether R. felis is present in other tissues of seropositive cats and whether it should be considered to be a feline pathogen. Rickettsia typhi is a worldwide flea-borne rickettsia of the typhus group. It is the agent of murine or endemic typhus transmitted from rats by Xenopsylla fleas, or from cats to humans by C. felis, as well as to cats or wild animal reservoirs. Just as in humans and dogs, co-infections with multiple vector-borne pathogens occur in cats; the consequences of such mixed infections are unknown (Maia et al., 2014; Qurollo et al., 2014; Hegarty et al., 2015; Lappin et al., 2015). The geographical distribution of Anaplasma, Ehrlichia and Rickettsia pathogens overlaps with that of their competent vectors. In Europe, two tick species are mainly involved: Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato, which is the main tick vector of E. canis and R. conorii (and suspected for A. platys); and Ixodes ricinus, the vector of A. phagocytophilum. Both species are found also on cats (Jameson and Medlock, 2011; Claerebout et al., 2013; Pennisi et al., 2015a). Ixodes ricinus has a wide distribution, from the Mediterranean area to Scandinavian countries, and from Portugal to Ukraine (http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/healthtopics/vectors/vector-maps/Pages/VBORNET-maps-tick-species.aspx). In the Eastern part of Europe a closely related species, Ixodes persulcatus is found (Sainz et al., 2015). Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato (the brown dog tick or kennel tick) is common in the Mediterranean basin; in northern countries, R. sanguineus is not indigenous but it can hibernate sheltered in cracks of kennel structures so that the area of its distribution is expanding northward. In summary, E. canis and A. platys are considered endemic in Mediterranean countries but are spreading northward, whereas A. phagocytophilum is reported mainly in Northern and Central Europe (Sainz et al., 2015). In stray cats in Northern Italy, blood PCR for A. phagocytophilum, Ehrlichia spp. and Rickettsia spp. tested positive in 17.7%, 5.4% and 31.9%, respectively (Spada et al., 2014). Similar rates were found in healthy cats as compared to those showing clinical signs. Blood transfusion consequently may be a nonvectorial mode of transmission for rickettsial agents in cats, as it is well known in dogs (Sainz et al., 2015). Little information is available on the pathogenesis of these agents in cats. A limited number of studies on experimental infections or exposure with A. phagocytophilum or R. felis in cats exist. Intraperitoneal experimental infection with A. phagocytophilum infected blood in a small number of cats resulted in a mild disease with transient fever not associated with changes in appetite or general appearance. However, mild reduction in total leukocyte, neutrophil and lymphocyte counts, remarkable reduction in PCV values, and transient increase of ALT and AST values were detected (Foley et al., 2003). Anti-nuclear antibodies and increased expression of γIFN mRNA were also found in infected cats but they had normal antibody responses to FHV and FeLV vaccination two weeks post infection (p.i.). When experimental infection with A. phagocytophilum was performed in FIV-infected cats, upregulation of IL-10 expression was observed instead of γIFN, but the clinical course of disease was similar (Foley et al., 2003). The recent experimental exposure of four cats with wild-caught adult Ixodes scapularis induced a quite subclinical dual infection with A. phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi (Lappin et al., 2015). In fact, a transient lymphopenia was the only abnormality detected during 13 weeks of observation after tick infestation, concerning general appearance, appetite, body temperature and cell blood count of the experimental cats (Lappin et al., 2015). In naturally exposed cats, clinical signs of feline granulocytotropic anaplasmosis are usually reported soon after tick infestation. They are mostly non-specific and consist of fever, anorexia, lethargy and dehydration. Clinico-pathological abnormalities include mild or moderate thrombocytopenia, anaemia and lymphopenia (Bjöersdorff et al., 1999; Lappin et al., 2004; Schaarschmidt-Kiener et al., 2009; Heikkilä et al., 2010; Adaszek et al., 2013; Savidge et al., 2015). Lameness and swollen joints, epistaxis or pain on abdominal palpation were less frequently reported (Bjöersdorff et al., 1999; Tarello, 2005; Adaszek et al., 2013). The clinical course is usually short and not severe and abnormalities resolve quickly, particularly when antibiotic treatment is given. Natural infection with A. platys in a cat in Brazil was associated with anorexia, lethargy, concurrent urinary infection and thrombocytopenia (Lima et al., 2010). In another cat persistent A. platys infection was found concurrently with Bartonella henselae, B. koehlerae and Candidatus Mycoplasma haemominutum infections and the cat was also affected by multiple myeloma (Qurollo et al., 2014). In both cases, the pathogenic role of A. platys was not clearly established. In the cat with multiple myeloma, immunosuppression due to a severe monoclonal gammopathy could have been responsible for increased susceptibility to the co-infections. Experimental subcutaneous inoculation of cats with a canine strain of E. canis was not successful and the pathogenesis of feline monocytotropic ehrlichiosis in cats is not known (Lappin and Breitschwerdt, 2012). The natural disease has been confirmed by molecular testing only in a few cases and mainly manifests as non-specific signs such as fever, anorexia and lethargy, but more rarely hyperesthesia, joint pain, pale mucous membranes, lymph node and spleen enlargement, and haemorrhagic diathesis (petechiae, vitreous haemorrhage) have also been reported (Lappin and Breitschwerdt, 2012). Haematology can reveal non-regenerative anaemia, thrombocytopenia, pancytopenia and increased or decreased white cell counts (Lappin and Breitschwerdt, 2012). Bone marrow hypoplasia is found in cats with pancytopenia or anaemia and thrombocytopenia on haematology (Breitschwerdt et al., 2002). The most consistent biochemical abnormality seen with feline monocytotropic ehrlichiosis was hyperproteinaemia and polyclonal or monoclonal gammopathy, which is also typical of the chronic course of canine monocytotropic ehrlichiosis (Lappin and Breidtschwerdt, 2012). Anti-nuclear antibodies were found in some cats and neutrophilic polyarthritis was diagnosed in a cat with joint signs (Breitschwerdt et al., 2002). Rickettsia felis infection was evaluated in clinically ill cats, but no association was found between antibody positivity and fever and no febrile cat was found to be PCR positive for R. felis or R. rickettsii (Bayliss et al., 2009). Another study has explored the associations between Ehrlichia spp. or A. phagocytophilum infections and anaemia, but no significant associations were detected (Ishak et al., 2006). The main indication for diagnostic investigations for Rickettsial diseases is a febrile syndrome affecting cats exposed to ticks in endemic areas, especially stray or outdoor pet cats not protected by the regular use of appropriate ectoparasiticides. Blood or buffy-coat smear evaluation may be useful for cytological diagnosis of infections with Ehrlichia and Anaplasma spp. In general, intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies are more frequently found in granulocytotropic anaplasmosis than in monocytotropic ehrlichiosis. Anaplasma phagocytophylum inclusion bodies are found in 1-24% of circulating neutrophils in cats with natural granulocytotropic anaplasmosis. In experimentally infected cats they appear 7-9 days p.i. (Foley et al., 2003) or over the first 10 weeks after tick infestation (Lappin et al., 2015). After antibiotic therapy they are no longer visible (Bjöersdorff et al., 1999; Heikkilä et al., 2010; Lappin et al., 2015). With A. platys, bacteraemia is cyclical at 1 to 2-week intervals, with a higher percentage of circulating infected platelets occurring during the first cycles (Harvey et al., 1978). Antibodies to rickettsial infections can be detected by immunofluorescence (IF) test and ELISA. Cross-reaction is possible between A. phagocytophilum and A. platys but not with E. canis, although E. canis can cross react with other Ehrlichia spp. Antibodies against A. phagocytophilum were detected in an experimental study within 14 days p.i. and seroconversion occurs in natural infections even in antibiotic treated cats (Foley et al., 2003). In cats experimentally exposed to infected ticks, antibodies against A. phagocytophilum appeared 2-6 weeks after infestation (Lappin et al., 2015). In the case of a positive IF test at first sampling, a 4-fold increase of the titre over four weeks may confirm the acute course of the infection (Bjöersdorff et al., 1999; Foley et al., 2003; Lappin et al., 2004; Heikkilä et al., 2010). Some cats testing positive to E. canis by PCR were found to be antibody negative despite the chronic course of their disease suggesting that a negative antibody test does not exclude the diagnosis in cats with compatible clinical signs (Breitschwerdt et al., 2002). Blood PCR analysis is a sensitive and specific method for confirming diagnosis at the onset of acute clinical signs when antibody testing is usually still negative (Foley et al., 2003; Lappin et al., 2015). Because of overlapping clinical signs, the use of genus-inclusive primers for Ehrlichia–Anaplasma and Rickettsia spp. genera in PCRs has been suggested followed by sequencing of any resulting PCR products to determine the infecting species (Allison and Little, 2013). However, a recent study demonstrated that some genus-specific PCRs also detect Pseudomonas sequences and may lead to false positive results that may only be recognized after sequencing analysis (Hofmann-Lehmann et al., 2016). Alternatively, the use of species-specific real-time TaqMan assays may be faster and more sensitive options for the molecular detection of rickettsaemia. Samples for microscopic detection or PCR should be collected prior to the initiation of antibiotic treatment. Doxycycline is the first choice antibiotic for treating rickettsial infections. It is administered at 10 mg/kg orally q24 for 28 days. Clinical improvement is seen in the first 24-48 hours unless co-infections not susceptible to doxycycline are present such as protozoal vector-borne agents, or if other complications develop such as severe bleeding. Animals generally respond well to treatment but may remain persistently infected. In cases testing negative by microscopy, PCR or antibody test, or if results are not yet available, but where there is a strong clinical suspicion of rickettsial infections, treatment should be initiated to prevent the potential of rapid progression of clinical disease. As vectors are the main routes of transmission of rickettsial infections, regular application of appropriate ectoparasiticide spot on or collars may protect cats from becoming infected, as it is well recognised in dogs. In endemic areas, blood donors should be tested for rickettsial blood-borne infections to confirm they are negative before being used as donors (Pennisi et al., 2015b). Rickettsial pathogens are transmitted to humans by competent vectors. Infected cats, as well as dogs, are “sentinels” of the presence of rickettsial pathogens in ticks and fleas in a given geographical area and they signal a risk for people exposed to vectors. 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__label__wiki	0.553243	0.553243	Trump Supporter Screams ‘White Power’ At Mostly-White Alabama Rally (VIDEO) By John Prager on August 22, 2015 10:27 am · Recently, we reported that wild-haired Republican superstar, billionaire Donald Trump, has won the hearts of white supremacists across the country. Trump has managed to obtain endorsements from prominent white supremacist blogger Andres Anglin, as well as Council of Conservative Citizens member and white supremacist Kyle Rogers, whom Dylann Roof credited with inspiring his radicalization. Therefore, it is entirely unsurprising that at a mostly-white rally in a mostly-black town in Alabama, Trump’s supporters were glad to scream out “White power!” Mobile, Alabama, the city in which the Trump rally was held is more than 51% black — but you wouldn’t know that from the crowd of roughly-20,000 mostly-white “patriots” who are eagerly seeking to be rid of brown people in general. But who would really expect African-Americans or Hispanics to show up to a Trump rally? After all, Trump feels that all Mexicans are rapists and, while he says he has a great relationship with “the blacks,” Trump has no problem threatening to beat up Black Lives Matter protesters if they get too uppity at his events. But just look at the sea of diversity: via Breitbart Trump kicked off his event by telling his white friends in the audience that he was absolutely right that undocumented immigrants are all slavering, ravenous rapists because of a couple isolated incidents in the news. “Between what happened in San Francisco….The other day in California, last week, a woman, 66 years old a veteran was raped, sodomized, tortured and killed by an illegal immigrant,” Trump said. “We have to do it. We have to do something.” With Trump’s outlandish claims that Mexicans are criminals, threats against a black civil rights movement, and unapologetically bigoted attitude, it was bound to happen – someone in the audience screamed “White Power” about 7 or 8 times. Social media was immediately ablaze with commentary on the show of support for Trump. Now, some may say that this person was a plant — that he’s not an actual Trump supporter. So, let’s see how some real, live white supremacists feel about him. On “White Power” haven Stormfront, commenters absolutely adore Trump. In a post titled “Donald Trump Is Just The Opening Act. Yes, we will live to see a Fourth Reich,” vikaryan boldly states that “Trump is our only hope.” “Trump is attacking the very underpinnings of White genocide which are third world invasion and political correctness,” Antonio Fini replies. “That is why every component of the machine, including the Republican party, wants him gone. Except the people don’t want it, and you can’t silence the people unless they want to be silenced.” In a subsequent post, Fini explained that Trump is the key to a white supremacist takeover of America: Imagine Trump tries to close the border and deport. Then the courts block him. Then he orders law enforcement to act anyway under presidential protection. This is an entirely possible scenario. It’s also possible that just as Blacks saw Obama as a blanket mandate to riot and burn, marginalized White people might get funny ideas too under a Trump presidency. I think you will find White law enforcement and military highly disinclined to do anything as pro White street actions begin re-modelling large sections of our country. But first he has to win. “Im not sure if trump will bring in a perfect america, but i think that he will definately improve things. Deporting illegals and enforcing the laws already in place would be a great thing for this country. I also think that the fact he is so opposed by the majority of the political arena is a great sign that he really will do good for this country,” writes Blondeblue. “Anything on top of the illegal immigration thing is just gravy!” Donald Trump, the current GOP frontrunner has taken white supremacy mainstream — but, as science tells us, conservatism and racism go hand-in-hand, anyway. With Trump, however, the Right doesn’t need to pretend anymore. They can finally be who they truly are — and that’s not OK. Soon, it will only be appropriate to classify Trump supporters as a hate group. Watch Trump’s very vocal supporter bellow “White power!” below: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4_UiUrRcbg&w=640&h=360] Featured Image via PoliticusUSA Author: John PragerJohn Prager is an unfortunate Liberal soul who lives uncomfortably in the middle of a Conservative hellscape. Prager spends much of his time poking Trump's meth-addled, uneducated fans with a pointy stick and is currently writing a book of muskrat recipes (not really) as well as putting together a scrapbook of his favorite death threats. His life's aspiration is to rule the world with an iron fist, or find that sock he's been looking for. Feel free to email him at [email protected] if you have any questions or comments -- or drop him a line on Twitter or Facebook.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line471
__label__wiki	0.630911	0.630911	Top U.S. official on East Asia to discuss Seoul-Tokyo trade dispute with S. Korean officials Cultural events in Gwangju on sidelines of 2019 World Aquatics Championships S. Korea's Air Force takes delivery of 2 more F-35A stealth fighter jets from Lockheed Martin How does Kim Jong-un get his fleet of Mercedes-Benz cars? Trump highlights "tremendous progress" made with N. Korea, adding time is not of es... Sultry weather with monsoon rain down south South and North Korea agree to conduct joint site inspection on guard posts removal in DMZ next Wednesday Updated: 2018-12-07 07:28:54 KST South Korea's defense ministry announced Thursday that the militaries of South and North Korea have agreed to conduct a one-day joint inspection to verify the removal of guardposts on both sides of the DMZ. The inspection is set for next Wednesday. Last month, the two Koreas removed firearms and troops from eleven guard posts on each side, and then demolished the structures using explosives and bulldozers. But they decided in the process to leave one standing on each side for historic and symbolic reasons. Those too are subject to the inspection to verify the removal of weapons. Seoul's defense ministry says both sides will send teams of seven members to each of the guard posts led by an active-duty officer of colonel-level rank and including two photographers. The South Koreans will inspect the North Korean guard posts on Wednesday morning, and the North Koreans will visit the South Korean guard posts in the afternoon. The ministry also says the two Koreas will build cross-border foot paths between the pairs of guard posts, which face each other, for the inspectors to use on the day. "The new path will be used by active-duty soldiers from both sides as they verify the complete demolition of these front-line guard posts. We hope the path takes us to a new era -- to a DMZ that's no longer a symbol of division, confrontation and conflict but a zone of peace. The South Korean military will continue to maintain a firm defense posture and to supporting the peace process militarily." The defense ministry said verification process shows the two Koreas' mutual trust built on September's inter-Korean military agreement in which they agreed to stop all hostile acts against each other. For security reasons, the defense ministry does not officially reveal the exact number of all guard posts in the DMZ, but it's believed that the South has about sixty and the North about a hundred and sixty. A military source says the ultimate goal of both Koreas is to remove all of them in the near future. Park Ji-won, Arirang News. Reporter : jiwonpark@arirang.co.kr 02:31 NIS reports findings on illegal ship entry to Japan, situation in N. Korea South Korea's National Assembly is holding a ceremony today to ... Trump highlights "tremendous progress" made with N. Korea, adding time is not of essence North Korea's Foreign Ministry has condemned the U.S.,... s... U.S. should step in to resolve escalating trade tensions between S. Korea and Japan: Expert Foreign Correspondents from all aro...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line477
__label__wiki	0.592496	0.592496	Fmr. S. Korean Supreme Court Chief indicted on 47 charges Updated: 2019-02-12 06:55:30 KST The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office handed over former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang Sung-tae to the court on Monday. He's facing 47 charges, including interfering in highly sensitive trials, like the ones related to Japan's use of Korean forced labor during World War II, to achieve his long-envisioned plan of establishing a separate court of appeals, and creating a blacklist of judges who opposed his plan. He's also accused of illegally securing records of judges' deliberations at the Constitutional Court of Korea, an independent high court that rules on constitutional issues. The prosecutors suspect that Yang used those records to prevent them from ruling contrary to Supreme Court precedent. Yang is also accused of creating slush funds during his tenure. By the end of this month, prosecutors plan to carry out additional investigations to indict other former and sitting judges involved in the power abuse scandal during Yang's leadership of the judiciary, which should wrap up their eight-month probe. Two other former Supreme Court justices, Park Byeong-dae and Ko Yeong-han have been indicted as Yang's accomplices. They face 33 and 18 charges, respectively. Choi Si-young, Arirang News. Reporter : siyoungchoi@arirang.com	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line478
__label__wiki	0.570238	0.570238	The Post-Colonial Enterprise of Trillium: Maps, Language, Histories, and Multilateral Consciousness Publication: The Canadian Alternative: Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels from the North Brief Description/Editor(s): Grace, D., Hoffman, E. Publisher: University of Mississippi Press ISBN/ISSN: 978-1496815118 Number of Works: 17 This chapter examines Jeff Lemire's Trillium (2014) which, like many time travel narratives, reflects ideas of colonialism in the appropriation of territory and time by future scientist, Nika and British explorer Billy's respective cultures. The paper uses postcolonial theories of writers such as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Frantz Fanon and bel hooks to draw parallels between colonial discourses of mapping and language in European voyages of discovery of the 16-20th centuries with that of the cultures of the British Empire and the future remnants of humanity. In his comments on mapping, language and communication, Lemire shows how language and histories are tools of aggression against the Atabithians. Lemire, therefore, proposes alternate reading practices, histories and social orders by playing with the comic form, language and spatiality. In doing so he destablises reader's commonsense perceptions of realism, time and history.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line480
__label__cc	0.510526	0.489474	Home アサヒファームの特徴 Trying to Score 2019年6月26日アサヒファームの特徴 Trying to Score Trying to Score Author: Toni Aleo Description: In a captivating novel of second chances and healing hearts, the newest member of the Nashville Assassins pulls a power play to make things right with the one that got away. Fallon Parker’s dream has always been to turn her family’s wine company into a runaway success and eventually start a cellar of her own. Since graduating from college, she has worked relentlessly to make that dream a reality, especially after taking a chance on love—and losing. By the time Fallon becomes an official sponsor of the Nashville Assassins, she feels like all her hard work is finally paying off. And then the man who broke her heart skates back into her life. On the ice, Lucas Brooks is the NHL’s leading scorer—at least when he’s not in the box. Off the ice, he’s a mess, with all his anger and misery bottled up inside. He threw away the most important person in his life and has regretted it ever since. But when Lucas returns to Nashville in a trade, he’s determined to convince Fallon that he’s a changed man. The attraction is still there. The tension is electrifying. But the odds are stacked against them—especially after Lucas finds out that Fallon has been keeping a devastating secret. Spodaj Trying to Score navajam 22 najpomembnejih pravil, ki naj bodo nae vodilo, nae ogrodje: 1.In an attempt Trying to Score to stave off the effects of aging, Dr.I Trying to Score took a class with him, but he has free interviews and free content on his web site.It’s an Trying to Score interesting read although the section on Colby’s time in Vietnam may bog down a little bit in necessary detail.Vicious! This Trying to Score book was like a breath of fresh air where shifters are concerned.If you are a seller for this product, would you like Trying to Score to suggest updates through seller support? Get to Una casa vacia carlos cerda Us.Philip clapped his hands with enthusiasm Trying to Score Louis XIV., more. A Shadow on the Glass What is Prophetic Medicine? Title: Vanishing Point	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line481
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__label__wiki	0.555132	0.555132	Board index Mutants & Masterminds Mutants & Masterminds Settings The Combined DCU-Marvel Universe thread Discuss Freedom City, Paragons, Wild Cards, or your own campaign settings here. Re: The Combined DCU-Marvel Universe thread Post by Ares » Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:03 am I hope you guys don't mind, but I thought I'd share some of my thoughts regarding a beloved character, taken from some posts I made on the soon to be defunct DC Message Boards. So without further ado: Ares Random Captain Marvel Thoughts, Part I The Uniform: Minor tweaks to a classic outfit, the way updates should be. Identity : Billy Batson needs to be in control of the Captain Marvel form, and the powers he wields cannot alter his personality directly, otherwise Black Adam never would have fallen because the powers would have turned him into the perfect hero. Instead, the power can influence the wielder the way any power can influence someone via human nature: it is a temptation to use that power in an unjust manner, one that Billy shows he can refuse by willingly returning to normal. That should be a big part of Billy's character, the fact that, unlike Shazam or Black Adam, Billy is willing to go back to being a normal kid, to try and do things on his own, and use the power only when it needs to be used. I know some fans dislike Billy and Cap being one and the same, but its really the only way to cater to both fanbases, because even the ones who dislike the idea have said they wouldn't have a problem with it if it was done right. Well, here's the chance for DC to say "This is the definitive presentation of Captain Marvel, do not deviate from it". The key point here would be that Billy is the true hero, and that being Captain Marvel just gives him to power to be an effective hero and change the world for the better, much the way King Arthur was always a noble man, but gaining the sword and the crown allowed him to create a land of heroes and justice. Billy should be no younger than 12 and no older than 15, and he definitely shouldn't be naive. As someone who lost everything before he was 10 and had to survive on the mean streets for a couple of years on his own, Billy should be a brave, resourceful, streetsmart individual who never the less has held on to his sense of hope, justice and faith in humanity. He has a down to Earth attitude due to his living conditions, and he uses humor as a coping mechanism for when things get rough. Most of all tho, he's someone with a deep sense of compassion and empathy, he feels for other people and wants to help them, and people feel that sincerity whenever he does anything. An idea I would put forward is that Billy actually has a little pirate radio opperation going, maintained by some of his more tech savvy friends in the homeless community, where he gives nightly or weekly broadcasts to the city, commentating on recent events, talking about his views, and trying to reveal some of the evils of people in the city like Sivana, and he ends every transmission with a little line about hope, and the reminder that only people can make a bad situation better. Even when homeless, Billy is trying to get to the truth and inspire people, the experience he gains here would pay off later, explaining how a young kid lands a job as a radio broadcaster, when the owner of WHIZ Broadcasting offers to make him a legitimate reporter. This would eventually move to Billy having a daily show and a weekly hour long broadcast on WHIZ TV in a 60 minutes style broadcast where he conducts interviews and talks about stories he's worked on. As Captain Marvel, Billy is given the power to change the world and make things better, but he tempers that power with restraint. Like the recent Captain America film, Billy understands what it is like to be weak, he has respect for the power he has, and he has compassion for those less fortunate than himself. As such, he tries to solve problems diplomatically first, opting for violence only if talking doesn't work out. When violence is needed, he uses apropriate force, never going for the kill, but cracking jokes during the fight because superhero action is a bit of a relief for him, and is fun when facing genuine monsters. More over tho, Cap's presence is meant to give people hope and to inspire them to be better. His down to Earth attitude and friendly nature doesn't inspire revrent awe, but rather a comfort in normal people. Cap feels like "one of the guys", so he puts people at ease, and it adds resonence to his words because its coming from someone who truly understands them. Whereas a lot of people can't see past the mask with other superheroes, people see past the powers of Cap and see a man who wants to help them, and his actions inspire them in the way a normal person standing up to evil always has. Captain Marvel does NOT come off as a little kid in an adults body. Billy is aware of what he looks like and what his responsibilities are when he's in this form, so he acts appropriately. He looks like someone in his late 20's/early 30's, and acts the way some adults do, as a friendly but professional and competent guy who still has a bit of childlike wonder and enthusiasim in what he does. He does not come off as naive, eager to please, or as a simpleton. He is the same resourceful, heroic Billy Batson, just with superpowers. General Purpose: Captain Marvel's very nature allow hims a great deal of diversity, allowing him to do 'standard' superhero adventures, but also serve as one of the people on the first line of defense against mystic based threats. When the Sidhe Courts of Faery are getting ready to go to war, Cap steps in and handles things diplomatically. If a group of cultists try to bring some Lovecraftian Horror into the universe, Cap takes them down, and then beats the horror back to its inter-dimensional prison. If a Silent Hill type town starts to spread evil out into the rest of the world, Cap goes in and puts it back in its place. At the same time, Cap is about lending hope to normal people, so while he deals with mystic threats, he also deals with normal supervillains, crime and the like. His mission statement is to defend the world from the Seven Deadly Enemies of Man and the people who willingly spread that kind of evil in the world, whether he does that defending as Cap or as Billy. Something Cap also should do is be a humanitarian. He should remember every person he saves and every civilian or rescue worker he talks to. If someone he rescued wound up in the hospital during the rescue, Cap would go visit them the next day to make sure they're alright. If some little kid got separated from his parents during a supervillain brawl, Cap helps him find his folks. And if Cap stops a gang of crooks, he genuinely tries to help rehabilitate them. One story I always wanted to see done was from the perspective of a young criminal whose gang is broken up when they commit a robbery. Cap gets them to surrender, promising to do what he can to help them. Only we then get to see that get put into action. Cap visits the criminal every week or so, talks to him, gets him involved in programs that could help him, speaks on his behalf at his parole hearing, and helps him get a job afterwards. And then we find out that Captain Marvel does this for a large portion of criminal population. Cap is here to help everyone overcome Evil, even those who have started to succumb to it. Fawcett City should have one of the lowest normal crime rates in the country because, for Cap, stopping crime doesn't end with putting a crook in jail, that's where it truly starts. Last edited by Ares on Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:20 am, edited 1 time in total. Homebrew Settings MEGAVERSE: The Animated Series The Mean Streets of Modern Magic and Other Extraordinary Things Ares Random Captain Marvel Thoughts, Part II Powers and Abilities : Part of why the Power of Shazam can cause such temptation is because it makes its wielder essentially a god. Captain Marvel should be amongst the most powerful heroes in DC, a contemporary of Superman, virtually his equal in power, but without the magic weakness coming into play unless the Shazam bolt gets involved. I use to be an advocate of Captain Marvel having a variety of new powers, like throwing lightning and the like. Now I think Cap works best as a classic flying brick without a whole lot of extras. It harkens back to the old mythology where Hercules was just a really strong guy, but often got creative with his strength in order to save the day. But at the same time, Cap should be the best example of a pure flying brick in comics, and his powers should reflect that. Here's how I'd break down his various abilities. Wisdom of Solomon : The Wisdom functions as a magical database, allowing Cap to access information on history, supernatural lore, and be up to date on the mystical world. He knows the history of the Faery Courts, the structure of the Angelic Choir, and the classification of the Djin. He can also comprehend any spoken or written language, and can speak it in turn, even magically speaking languages humans aren't really designed to speak. The Wisdom also allows him to see through illusions if he focuses, and can be used to cast ritual magic spells if he has the right tools, which he can usually acquire quickly thanks to his Speed. The Wisdom also grants him the ability to detect and follow magical energies, and identify them. Strength of Hercules : The Strength makes Cap one of the strongest beings in the DCU, able to hold his own against Superman or the strongest of the foes. The metaphysical aspect of this strength allows Cap to lift things so that they don't break under their own weight, much like Hercules once held up the sky. Stamina of Atlas : The Stamina is the source of Cap's invulnerability, as well as his ability to opperate for days or weeks without tiring, and not need to eat, sleep or breath. Because of the mystical nature of this invulnerability, all of Cap is equally protected, so that his eyes or brain is no less durable than his skin. Power of Zeus : The Power adds itself to his other abilities, reinforcing them and making them stronger if Cap pumps power into them. However, channeling the power is a tiring thing, and the more power he puts into those abilities, the more he exhausts himself past what even the Stamina of Atlas can account for. He could, for instance, amplify his strength to hit much harder, or to increase the metaphysical property so that he could grasp a normally intangible being such as a ghost. He could also amplify the Wisdom so that he could see invisible mystical beings, or amplify the Stamina to survive an attack that would have killed him or resist a power attempting to transform him into a different form, so on and so forth. However, the more he pushes that power, the more exhausted he will be, to the point of knocking himself out. When amplified by the Power, Cap's strikes carry the authority of Zeus, which basically allows him to affect all supernatural beings equally with his attacks. Beings who are normally not vulnerable to physical assault, or only vulnerable to certain things will feel Cap's punches normally. Even without amplifying his abilities, the Power of Zeus acts to make Captain Marvel's 'brick tricks' more effective than a normal. He can precisely control the power of his handclaps so that the knock people off their feet, put out fires, or hit with such force that they level buildings and leave spherical craters in the ground. He can stomp on the ground and perfectly control the stomp so that a fissure will open up under an opponent. He can pick up an object and throw it, charging it with the power of Zeus so that the thrown object hits like it was Cap's fist. In essence, it allows Cap to perform all of the fun brick tricks from the 60's, 70's and 80's comics in a contemporary setting, with actual justification for it. The Power also makes Cap's senses a bit sharper than a normal humans, though not as sharp as Superman's. Courage of Achilles : The Courage grants Billy protection from supernatural effects that would adversely effect him, such as the madness caused by Lovecraftian horrors, the fear some dragons cause or the lust some Sidhe women can inspire. While Billy could resist these effects with his own willpower, the Courage means that he doesn't have to worry about it, and can instead focus on the task at hand without any distractions. No matter what foe Cap faces, he can do so with a clear mind and a level head, at least from the supernatural power they exude. He might still find a dragon scary looking, of a sidhe woman beautiful, but Billy can resist such things on his own merrits. The Courage also gives Cap access to advanced combat skills, as well as the battlefield tactics of one of history's greatest warriors. When Cap combines this with the Wisdom, he often has several workable plans and all the information he needs to make an informed decision, but the final decision must be his. Speed of Mercury : The Speed allows Cap the ability to move, fly and think at superhuman speeds. It also allows him to travel to realms such as the lands of Faery or Olympus at will, with the Messenger aspect of his power granting him the ability to find those locations with ease. General/Others : The Power of Shazam is a type of supernatural badge of authority. Supernatural beings that look on Cap know what he is, know the power he represents, and treat him accordingly. It basically gives him authority to speak with gods, supernatural monarchs and entities as old as the planet. The Rock of Eternity allows Cap access to places that might be off limits even with the Speed of Mercury, such as other times, alternate universes, etc. Historama acts as way for Billy to keep up to date on supernatural threats. In essence, since the Rock is at the heart of existence, it can be used to scry anything. Billy would have Historama set to alert him to supernatural threats, and appear to him as a picture that only he can see to alert him to such threats, allowing him to slip away and deal with the crisis at hand. The very mythic nature of the Power of Shazam means that people see Captain Marvel as the hero he is. In essence, Cap projects an aura that makes him seem more of who he is. Good/normal people get a generally good vibe from Cap, whil evil/bad people feel unease around him. This also means that people will not believe that Captain Marvel and Billy Batson are the same person unless they actually see the transformation with their own eyes, with the same being true for Mary Marvel or Captain Marvel Junior. If someone saw Mary Batson run into an alley, see a lightning strike and then see Mary Marvel come flying out, they wouldn't be able to put two and two together, thinking that Mary Marvel had just saved some girl from being struck by lightning. Likewise, if Captain Marvel Junior walked around in street clothes, people wouldn't wonder how Freddy Freeman can walk all of a sudden, they'd wonder what Captain Marvel Junior is doing in street clothes. Due to the mystical nature of his power, Captain Marvel is more resistant to magical based effects than other heroes, for whom supernatural phenomena is more of a problem. The Power of Shazam is within Billy, with the Shazam bolt acting as a trigger to cause it to turn on or off. However, the Shazam bolt itself can act as a potent weapon, containing the raw power of the Wizard. Normally, the Shazam bolt will seek to strike Billy or Cap, following them if need by, and since it comes from the Rock of Eternity, it can originate from within any point in existence. So if Billy was inside of a force field, the lightning would just originate from a point inside of the field. However, Cap/Billy can exert some control over the bolt so that it won't follow them, or even alter where the bolt will originate from, so that it will hit the spot Cap was standing when he called the word down, or so that the bolt will punch through the force field mentioned above. As a type of 'utlimate attack' Cap can call down the Shazam bolt and catch it, amplifying its power with the Power of Zeus and then throwing it, but doing so would leave him extremely exhausted, as well as injured from holding onto the bolt. And if he doesn't catch it, it could return him to his mortal form. Weaknesses : Cap has a few built in weaknesses due to his very nature. First and foremost, Billy Batson is a more or less normal human being phsycially, and can be harmed by mundane means. However, it is virtually impossible to transform him back into Billy Batson after he's Captain Marvel, requiring the specific Shazam bolt to do so. As such, most of the drama with Billy is whether or not he will change, not if he can be changed back to normal. Captain Marvel is vulnerable to effects that particularly target supernatural beings, or beings powered by the gods. If there was a weapon like the JLU Hawkgirl's mace, for instance, it would hurt Cap more than it would hurt Superman. Similarly, if there is a being whose powers work by draining the power of gods, or who is a 'god killer', then Cap would be more vulnerable to his effects. Billy needs to be able to speak the word Shazam to cause the transformation, but due to the nature of the power of words, someone must be able to hear the word being spoken to cause the change. Usually, as long as Billy himself can hear the words coming out of his own mouth, he can cause the change. However, if he were in a really loud concert where he literally cannot hear his own voice, then no matter how many times he would say the word, the lightning won't come. However, if Billy were to learn sign language and 'speak' the word Shazam with hand gestures and he could see his hands, then the transformation would take place, because he's still 'saying' the word on a metaphysical level. As Billy: Billy is a mostly normal human being, but the Power of Shazam inside of him gives him a few advantages. For one thing, he can detect magic much like the Wisdom of Solomon allows, and he can determine if its 'good magic' or 'bad magic', though he lacks any finer sense of things and would have to transform to get a more accurate reading. The Power also allows Billy to travel to mystical realms via methods most humans can't access. For instance, in Alice in Wonderland, Alice would have been the only person who could have gone through the rabbit hole to Wonderland, or gone through the looking glass, because she's got a sharper link to the superntural, enough to see the White Rabbit. Billy would similarly be able to make use of those two particular gateways to the magical realms if he needed to. In essence, Billy is able to find the mystical within the mundane. Billy is offered a degree of protection from the retribution of certain supernatural beings. Most supernatural beings below the station of godlike beings don't know Billy's true identity. Most of those that do are bound by the pact the pantheons have formed with Shazam. In essence, if any supernatural being that knows Billy is the Champion of Shazam attempts to influence or corrupt Billy unfairly, then the rest of the gods are honor bound to punish said being. As such, it would be suicide for any god to try to visit retribution upon Billy outright, and as such must try and visit it upon Captain Marvel in a more 'fair' fashion. Furthermore, beings are prevented from simply telling others that Billy is a champion of Shazam, due to the magic of words. Shazam hears every time someone says his name, or the name of those linked to him, and revealing that secret will visit Shazam's wrath upon that being. As such, no one in the supernatural community that knows Billy is Captain Marvel goes around speaking of it lightly. Lastly, Billy is amongst the most noble and pure beings who have ever lived. That purity, nobility and faith have a type of power all their own in supernatural circles. Location: The Green and Pleasent Isle Post by Libra » Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:24 pm Fine work Ares! Founder of H.E.R.O.I.C, Complimenter-in-Chief, Co-Arch Henchman to the Grin, Servant of the Hoff! Rule Brittania! Praise the Hoff and the Grin! Warning!: May cause Thread Drift. Post by Ares » Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:27 pm Thanks Libra. Now, to get to something a little more relevant to the thread: Captain Marvel and the rest of the Universe, Part II Continuing from where I left off, I bring you further examinations of Captain Marvel and the DC/Marvel CrossoVerse. As stated there, this version of Captain Marvel is more akin to Spider-Man and Ben Grimm, in that he's had team ups and encounters with most of the rest of the heroic community, owing to heroic nature, friendly attitude, and the fact that DC Editorial isn't keeping him benched like they do in the comics. Captain America: Steve and Billy share a unique relationship, in that they’ve had two first meetings. Chronologically, the pair first met in 1940’s, early in Captain America’s career when a mission to infiltrate a secret Nazi research lad that was full of giant armored mech suits. Captain America might not have survived the encounter if another Captain hadn’t burst through a wall and disabled the suits after a long, hard fought battle. When asked who he was, Captain Marvel simply smiled and said, “a friend” and departed quickly. This happened several more times during the next few weeks, with Captain Marvel appearing at sites of advanced Nazi technology, only to depart soon after. It was during one such instance that the Nazi’s were finally ready for Captain Marvel, using an ancient Babylonian artifact to sap most of his powers and might have killed him if Captain America hadn’t arrived to save him. After the fight was over, Captain Marvel was still too weak to leave, and thus Captain America finally managed to speak with him. Marvel decided to just come clean, going so far as to transform back to Billy Batson to allow his powers to recharge quicker while he explained things. It turns out that a villain from the future was supplying the Nazi’s with even more advanced technology, and Captain Marvel had journeyed into the past to specifically take down places with that advanced technology, while altering the timeline as little as possible. Steve agreed to keep Billy’s secret, and the two spoke long into the night, before Billy’s powers were regenerated. From that point on tho, the pair worked as a team for the extent of Captain Marvel’s stay in the past, including when the Third Reich created Captain Nazi to oppose them both. When Captain Marvel finally left for the future, Captain America had a new person to call friend. The pair met for the second time during the early days of the modern Heroic Age, when the heroic community consisted mainly of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers and Spider-Man, all of whom were called to face an invasion from the time traveler Kang. During the encounter, Captain Marvel’s inexperience and enthusiasm caused him to make a mistake that almost proved disastrous, and afterwards found himself questioning if Shazam had made a mistake giving this kind of power to a kid. It was Captain America that approached Marvel and spoke with him, leaving the younger hero somewhat flustered at meeting a living legend. Steve, on the other hand, treated Billy like an old friend, even though he knew this was the first time they had technically spoken. He told Billy that he knew the kind of hero Billy would grow up to be, and that he’d be proud to serve alongside him. This little pep talk gave Billy the confidence to put his self doubts aside and never look at them again, and for the second time the two forged a fast friendship. Steve and Billy are pretty much cut from the same cloth. Both were young men who understand what it’s like to be weak and helpless, and thus have empathy and compassion for everyone else. Both were chosen for their moral qualities to be given the power to change their fates. And both have used that power to become symbols of hope. The military lifestyle Steve has embraced has made him a bit more stern and serious than Billy’s more laid back and humorous attitude, but the two are very much brothers in arms. Billy’s more ‘retro’ attitude makes him someone Steve can talk to about a lot of things, and there’s a little malt shop in Fawcett that the two regularly visit together. Steve has even coached Billy in hand-to-hand combat so that the 16 year old can defend himself in his mortal form. Dr. Strange: Stephen Strange isn’t the easiest person to get along with by virtue of his aloof nature, this sense that he always knows something he isn’t telling you, and his odd sense of humor. He never really gets along well with the Defenders, he scares a lot of the mystical community, and superheroes rarely know what to make of him. There’s only a relatively small group of people Stephen considers true friends, which include Spider-Man and Captain Marvel. The pairs sense of humor and acceptance of the bizarre, as well as their grounded personalities help Stephen actually relax and relate to them in ways he rarely can with other heroes. Given that both the Captain and the Doctor are the two foremost defenders against the supernatural (Dr. Fate’s periods of inactivity prevent him from being as prominent in this regard), the two are often the first the other calls when they find themselves needing allies. Billy also makes it a point to invite Stephen over for dinner and give him some more human contact, as the Doctor could easily just spend the rest of his life in his studies. Likewise, the two have a tradition of watching baseball games together, as its one bit of fandom they both follow. Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel got off to a rocky start, as they were both each other’s first mistaken hero fight. Diana was still relatively new to world of men when she and Cap met, and Diana recognized that this person had the powers of her pantheon within him. Believing that the gods would not willingly empower someone else with such gifts, she came to the conclusion that Captain Marvel had stolen those powers, and attacked him. Billy defended himself, but it quickly became a stalemate, since his strength and more durability advantage was matched by Diana’s superior skill. Eventually, Cap was able to get her in a grapple, at which point he called down the Shazam lightning. When Diana awoke, she found herself in Billy Batson’s modest apartment, who offered her some soup and asked why she and Cap had been fighting. When she explained herself, Billy explained to her that Cap couldn’t possibly be a thief, and explained to her Cap’s backstory. When she asked how he could know that, he told her that he was Captain Marvel, and pointed down to reveal that he’d been standing on her lasso the entire time, and thus couldn’t have lied. The two talked for several hours after that and parted as friends. Billy and Diana work together semi-regularly when mythical menaces pop up, though Cap actually isn’t the first person Diana will call for aid. Usually Diana will go to Thor or Hercules first, and then Captain Marvel if they can’t be reached or if more help is required. This is because that, at her core, Diana is a warrior, and she’s more comfortable around other warriors when it comes to battles of the gods. She tends to view Billy as a younger brother, a unique experience for someone raised on an island of only women. Billy admittedly had something of a crush on her, as most men do, but he’s since grown out of it, noting that the two are better off as friends, even if he wasn’t too young for her at the moment. That hasn’t stopped Diana from trying to set Billy up on a date with Wonder Girl (Cassy), or from Billy likewise trying to get Captain America and Diana to go out. Captain Marvel and the rest of the Universe, Part III The Hulk: The Hulk’s first introduction to Captain Marvel was stereotypical of the Hulk’s first meetings with a lot of heroes, namely with him punching said hero in the face. In Cap’s case, it was after he had flown into the city the Hulk had been rampaging in, grabbed the Hulk and then flew the Jade Giant at superspeeds to the New Mexico desert. The Hulk then punched Cap in the face. Cap managed to dodge the next punch, but realized that not only was this very difficult (the Hulk is much faster and a much better brawler than people give him credit for), but that repeat dodges would just make the Hulk madder and stronger. So Cap blocked or just took the hits the Hulk sent at him, never fighting back and always keeping his trademark smile on his face, even after one eye started to swell shut. After a while the Hulk stopped, puzzled, and asked why the hero wasn’t fighting back. Cap explained that he didn’t want to fight Hulk, he just wanted to understand him. The Hulk replied that he just wanted to be left alone, and with a little help from Solomon, Cap got it. When the Hulk was around people, they were scared of him, they attacked him, and they got him angry. The Hulk didn’t WANT to be angry or hurt people, he just had a short temper and he only knew one way to respond to threats. If he was alone, no one would be scared of him or attack him, and he wouldn’t have to get angry. And even without Solomon, Billy could see that the Hulk was intensely lonely, and didn’t want to be alone either, not really. But being alone was better than being with people, if it meant he’d just wind up hurting them. So when the Hulk found a nice mesa he could sit on and watch the desert, Cap sat down next to him and just watched the landscape as well. Neither of them said anything for a while, even if the Hulk did turn to look at some other part of the desert for a bit. Finally, the Hulk started talking to Cap, who replied in kind, never talking down to the Hulk like he was a dullard. Then Cap started telling the Hulk jokes. After the Hulk finally stopped laughing, Cap asked what the Hulk did for fun, and realized that the childlike creature didn’t really know how to have fun. So they played like the adult children they were, games of catch, tag, a bit of fun roughhousing, until hours later, an exhausted Hulk finally turned back into Bruce Banner. Early on, Captain Marvel was actually one of the few heroes that got along better with the Hulk than he did Bruce Banner. Cap could sympathize with Banner’s plight, of never being able to lose control without becoming something he hated, but Cap felt that the Hulk was largely misunderstood, and that Banner’s efforts to destroy that part of him just made things worse. Eventually, Cap and Banner became friends as well, as Banner learned to accept that part of himself. The Hulk, by contrast, always enjoyed “Captain Capeman’s” company, and Cap became one of the go-to people when it was required to calm the Hulk down. It actually strained Billy and Dr. Strange’s friendship when the Doctor banished the Hulk to the Crossroads dimension that first time, and Billy did everything he could to see his friend returned home safely. The Avengers: In this continuity, Captain Marvel served on the Avengers for a while, which was why he didn’t serve on the Justice League initially until the International League days. He came on shortly after Captain America formed his “Kooky Quartet” to give it some strength until the roster became more stabilized. He’s since been an off again/on again member, and is well respected within the group. He was often the one that played peace maker within the group, would check on how others were doing and talk to them about their problems, which has earned him no small amount of appreciation from the team. The Fantastic Four: Captain Marvel and the Fantastic Four have had several adventures together, including times when Dr. Doom attempted to steal the Power of Shazam, or when Mr. Mind managed to take over Annihilus and almost conquered both the positive and anti-matter universes. Where Cap most finds himself being called in by the Four, though, is when they’re in need of a babysitter. After one adventure, the FF had to go off somewhere else, and asked if Cap wouldn’t mind babysitting the young Franklin Richards. Cap obliged, and being a kid himself knew exactly how to keep Franklin occupied. He’s since become one of the FF’s main babysitters, and often pals around with Johnny and Ben on adventures as well. He gets along well with Reed and Sue, but in some ways the two remind him of his own parents, which can make things awkward. The X-Men: The X-Men are heroes Cap has teamed up with the least. This isn’t through any conscious effort on his part, there’s often just very little overlap in what the two groups do, save for the big mega events. One of the few times they have teamed up was when Captain Nazi and his Battle Axis attempted to kill the mutants, feeling them to be an impure aberration of the Aryan ideal. Mere days after the fight, WHIZ Broadcasting received hate mail directed at the Captain from anti-mutant groups, considering him a race traitor for defending them. Captain Marvel promptly appeared as a guest during one of Billy weekly television interview segments (using the Rock of Eternity and time travel to be in two places at once), and gave a scathing speech directed at anyone who harbored such racist ideals, culminating in how the anti-mutant groups were siding with NAZIS. Only the occasional bit of hate mail has come in since, and Captain Marvel has gone out of his way to be a mutants rights activist, as well as strive for racial equality of all kinds. As such, while the adventures he has with the X-Men tend to be rare, he’s a frequent visitor to Xavier’s School for the Gifted, talking with the younger students, chatting with Professor X and providing a positive example that both mutants and humans could follow. The Defenders: Dr. Strange once hit upon the idea that Captain Marvel should join the Defenders. He figured the Captain’s presence would be a nice mitigating factor to the disagreeable natures of all of the usual members, since both Strange and the Hulk were friends with Cap, and both the Surfer and Namor respected him. So Cap accepted Stephen’s offer and tagged along with the Defenders for a single mission, and it was in fact one of the smoothest Defenders missions ever, with minimal bickering amongst the team and a general improvement in teamwork. When Strange asked Cap afterwards if he would consider joining the team, Cap politely but firmly declined, saying that the team was “WAY too high maintenance” for him. He revealed that it required near constant micro-managing from Cap to keep the group from constantly bickering with each other. Strange smiled and nodded, understanding that a team such as this could strain even Cap’s legendary patience, and that wasn’t really fair to the Captain. Instead, he asked that Cap be on call if the Defenders ever needed his help, and Billy agreed to that. Privately, when Billy spoke with Superman later, he commented that it was like “trying to babysit four ultra-powerful kids with attitude problems and no concept of how to get along”. It took Superman almost ten minutes to stop laughing. I claim page 39 of this thread in the name of Captain Marvel. Post by Libra » Sun Mar 11, 2012 1:25 pm Good for you and good for the Cap'n! Have you given any thought to revamping the Marvel Family Rogues Gallery as well? Post by Ares » Sun Mar 11, 2012 7:57 pm Libra wrote: Good for you and good for the Cap'n! Certainly, though I don't really need to do so for Dr. Sivana or Black Adam, as you guys have already done fantastic write ups as well. The only thing I'd add to Sivana is a reason why he doesn't just hit Billy Batson's home from orbit with some space-based mega-laser or something similar is because Sivana doesn't view Captain Marvel and Billy Batson as being the same person. The world's greatest genius defeated by someone with the mind of a child? Inconceivable! So he sees Billy Batson as someone who summons or trades places with Cap, rather than being Cap himself. Thusly, while he might incapacitate Billy in order to set off an evil scheme of his, he won't ever kill Billy because a triumph over Billy Batson is meaningless to Sivana. Sivana wants to defeat Captain Marvel, publicly humiliate him and make the whole world acknowledge that he's the superior genius and that "good is dumb". Not only is Billy aware of this, he has exploited it several times in the past. Other Marvel Family villains would be easy enough to write up, especially the versions done for this sort of merged setting. I'll probably make them the subject of my next post. Hopefully that'll encourage other people to get to posting before I turn this into a Captain Marvel thread. MightyDavidson Post by MightyDavidson » Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:20 am Ares wrote: If that bit proves popular, I might expand it to include other heroes, and maybe even take requests. Ok, I know I'm chiming in WAY late here but I'd like to know how Captain Marvel gets along with Power Pack. Also, I'm wondering which Marvel heroes Captain Marvel has fought and if there are any that could be considered part of his rogue's gallery? Post by Libra » Mon Mar 12, 2012 1:09 pm Other Marvel Family villains would be easy enough to write up, especially the versions done for this sort of merged setting. I'll probably make them the subject of my next post. I confess that I've been trying to work up the courage (and concentration) to do what you have done, but as you may have noted my attempt to give Green Arrow a spring-cleaning faltered just a bit right out of the starting gate ... Post by Ares » Wed Mar 14, 2012 12:45 am Captain Marvel's Rogues Gallery I At Libra's request, I thought I'd take a stab at some of Cap's rogues, both traditional and in the combined MU/DCU. As Dr. Sivana and Black Adam have been taken care of already, let me go with some others: Mr. Mind: Mr. Mind is indeed a small psionic worm from the planet Venus hear to conquer the world, with a little universal translator around his neck so that everyone will comprehend what he's saying. And as humorous as that might sound, it isn't very funny. Firstly, he sports the more modern look. Secondly, well, you have to understand that Mr. Mind doesn't see people as people. He comes from a race of beings with advanced technology, mental powers, and absolutely no concept of the worth of the individual. All of them were linked via a type of hive mind, and saw the rest of the universe as essentially resources to exploit. Other beings were either oddities to be experimented on, or meat puppets to ride around in. Virtually all of this species was destroyed when Captain Marvel was forced to re-route their transporter beam into deep space, killing all of Mr. Mind's 'apendages'/'brothers', leaving him the sole survivor of his people. As such, Mr. Mind is not only incapable of empathizing with humanity, he actively hates humanity, and the only reason he doesn't want to destroy us is so that he can enslave us, transform us into something more appealing, and then use us to rebuild his empire. He's the kind of thing H.P. Lovecraft would write about, a mad alien who refuses to acknowledge an individuals worth, a geneticist that rivals Arnim Zola and the High Evolutionary, and who packs intense psychic powers that are limited only by range. That he does all this with a childish glee and a mad cackle is why he and Dr. Sivana get along so well. They both know they're going to betray each other down the line, but they might as well have fun before it comes to that. Captain Nazi and the Fourth Reich: Captain Nazi was created back when Captain Marvel was time traveling in the past, working with Captain America to stop a secret shipment of advanced technology from the future to Nazi Germany. The two men together gave the Nazi high command the idea of combining the two, using super science to create a German super soldier, but one with powers to rival Captain Marvel rather than Captain America. Using some of that advanced technology, Arnim Zola was able to combine some of Baron Zemo's early Ionic Process ideas with Asgardian DNA they'd obtained, and transform a young Albrecht Krieger into Captain Nazi, a evil powerhouse roughly on par with the likes of Wonder Man, possessing great strength, near invulnerability, flight and speed, but lacking many other aspects of the Ionic process, such as the near immortality, and still needing to eat and breath. Captain Nazi proved a formidable foe during the World War II era to groups like the All-Star Squadron and Invaders, loyaly serving under Hitler, though he and the Red Skull never got along. Eventually Captain Nazi was placed in suspended animation with a group of other Nazi super soldiers, who were suppose to be awakened when a similarly preserved Hitler awoke and lead a new uprising. Instead, they were awoken in the modern age by a group of Neo-Nazis, learning that the Reich had fallen, with the Red Skull having discarded Nazi ideas of superiority in favor of his own superiorty. Captain Nazi has taken up the ideals and formed the Fourth Reich, composed of both the older German supervillains and whatever new supervillains will ally with him, becoming a foe of the Marvel Family, the JSA and the Avengers. The Fourth Reich includes the classic Baron Blitzkrieg, Kung-Assassin of 1,000 Claws, and others. King Kull: Along with Vandal Savage, King Kull is one of the oldest beings on the planet, and like Savage, he owes his origins to alien intervention. When the Celestials first came to Earth and started messing with human genetics, they created three offshoots of humanity: The Eternals, the Deviants and the Beastmen. The Beastmen were actually the first created, being simply an augmented version of humanity, allowed for greater size and strength, stronger survival instincts, greatly reduced aging, and so forth. The Deviants were then an effort to test the sheer variety that could be created, while the Eternals were an idealized, 'perfected' humanity. The Beastmen were initially the most numerous of the groups, as well as the most cruel, as the Celestials had augmented the 'survival' portions of the human psyche at the cost of morality, making them obsessed with hunting, killing, conqueroring and the like. The Beastmen swiftly used their physical advantages, as well as a working knowledge of some Celestial technology, to conquer most of the world. It required an alliance of humans, Deviants and Eternals to defeat the Beastmen, until only their king, Kull the Cruel, was left. Hiding himself in a chamber based on Celestial technology, Kull went into a deep hybernation while the machine further improved his body, giving him physical might comparable to that of an Eternal warrior. However, the machine malfunctioned, and Kull slept far longer than he had intended. He was awakened in the modern era by a group of scientists, and swiftly set about conquering this new world as well. Kull is comparable to Hercules physically, as well as in terms of skill, only he arms himself with advanced weapons designed to mimic old style 'barbarian' weaponry, wielding an axe that has a blade that emits cosmic energy and so forth. His technology is a strange bastardization of Celestial tech that has allowed him to come very close to killing off humanity. He's almost what you'd get if you gave Kalibak a genius level IQ, got rid of the daddy issues and kept the bloodthirsty disposition. Mr. Atom: Mr. Atom is the original giant atomic robot, developed in the 50's when atomic energy was thought to be the solver of all the world's energy issues. A reclusive scientist began working on Mr. Atom, designing an advanced artificial intelligence, a nearly indestructible body, and a compact reactor that could power a country. When first activated, the resulting energy backlash killed the scientist, leaving Mr. Atom free to examine the world by himself. He deduced from his observations of humanity that he was superior to them in virtually every way, and that they lived chaotic, wasteful lives. As such, he was the best qualified to organize their society into something more meaningful, orderly, and logical. Those that accepted his rule would be considered as having either the necessarry intelligence or survival instinctics to be allowed to live. Those that did not would be considered 'flawed', and thus destroyed. He demonstrated this by slaughtering most of the military sent to contain him. Luckily, the original Human Torch was still around, and held Mr. Atom off until Howard Stark was able to shut him down. Unable to disassemble the robot without fear of the reactor destroying everything around it, Mr. Atom was instead kept in storage and analyzed as best they could. Ultron later based much of his advanced body off of Mr. Atom's designs. Dr. Sivana eventually woke Mr. Atom up to use as a weapon against Captain Marvel, and the World's Mightiest Mortal has been put to the test every time he's faced the mighty metal menace. Mr. Atom is willing to work with advanced intellects such as Mr. Mind, Dr. Sivana, Dr. Doom and Ultron on a temporary basis, seeing them as intellectual peers who can help advance his goals, but who might need to be destroyed should they not submit to his eventual, ordered society. He and Ultron actually have something of a Big Brother/Little Brother relationship, though Mr. Atom often tries to get Ultron to purge himself of his 'irrational emotions'. Mr. Mind's Ani-Men: The Ani-Men are an example of just how twisted Mr. Mind is. In his own hidden labratory, he's created his own island of Doctor Moreau, filled with a society of creatures that range from animal/human hybrids to genetic monsters that would give H. R. Giger nightmares. And the term 'monster' is an apt one, because there is nothing truly redeemable about these creatures. Mr. Mind has mixed a little of his own DNA into each construct, not only making it so that he can control them from a far distance with his powers, but also make them more like him. Whether they have the intelligence of animals or a genius to rival his own, each and every one of these monsters despises humanity, lacking any and all compassion, even for each other. The one law of their society is perfect obedience to Mr. Mind. He has made a group of creatures that are incapable of deciding their own fate, forcing upon them his own way of thinking, taking away any empathy or morality other than his own. They are not only a force of creatures that threaten humanity, but a bleak preview of what Mr. Mind will do to the world if not stopped. More to come soon! Last edited by Ares on Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:48 am, edited 1 time in total. Post by Ares » Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:21 pm Captain Marvel's Rogues Gallery II Continuing the thread of Captain Marvel's rogues, I've included some additional villains he winds up fighting pretty regularly from Marvel as well. I don't include guys like Dr. Doom or Magneto, since while Cap has fought them both, Doom especially, those guys are pretty much villains of the entire world, so it isn't really anything 'special' to face off against them. Oggar: The World's Mightiest Immortal was once a fellow practicioner of magic alongside his friend the wizard Shazam, and in fact had been a potential canidate to be part of the new Shazam spell. Unfortunately, Oggar's greed and pride led him to form an alliance with the sorcereress Circe in an attempt to steal the Power of Shazam for themselves. However, Shazam proved too much for the both of them, and with the aid of the gods banished them to separate islands to minimize their mischief. Circe, unable to strike back against Shazam or the gods, tried to curse Oggar into an animal form, but his own magicreduced that curse to him simply having goat legs, like a saytr. Oggar took to wearing long robes afterwards, and also found out that due to his magic having to almost constantly war with Circe's curse that his spells could no longer directly affect women. Eventually Oggar was able to break the spell binding him to his island, partially due to his magics becoming so powerful, partially due to the wizard Shazam passing from the mortal world to permanently guard the Rock of Eternity. Oggar set out to find the current wielder of Shazam's power, only to find a superhero instead of a wizard. Since that initial fight, Oggar has constantly sought to gain revenge against the Wizard Shazam, Captain Marvel and Circe, as well as increase his own mystical power so that he might eventually supplant the Wizard as the rightful master of the Rock of Eternity. This has also put Oggar in conflict with other mystical powerhouses such as Dr. Strange and Dr. Fate. Ibac: Ibac was something of a prototype for the Lords of Hell to create their very own 'Shazam'. When a smalltime crook named Stanley "Stinky" Printwhistle offered to sell his soul in order to be a big shot criminal by defeating Captain Marvel, the Lords of Hell saw their chance. They gave Stanley the abilities of several Hell bound souls (Ivan the Terrible, Cesare Borgia, Attila the Hun, and Caligula) whose innate evil also granted Ibac superhuman strength, durability and warrior skills, all by speaking the word "Ibac". Ibac's own personality was basically an amalgamation of his evil 'doners' and the worst of Stanley's soul, making him a menace that Captain Marvel worked to defeat. However, after dealing with him, Cap played a role in helping Stanley reform, and the former criminal swore to never again bother the Captain. And since Captain Marvel remains undefeated, Stanley has kept his soul. However, various individuals or simple chance keep conspiring to change Stanley back into Ibac, only for Captain Marvel to again try and defeat this opponent without harming him too badly. Sabbac: If Ibac was the prototype, Sabbac was the final product, as the young Timothy Karnes was gifted with the powers of the demons Satan, Any, Belial, Beelzebub, Asmodeus, and Crateis. By speaking the word "Sabbac", he was transformed into a hulking, demonic form and given not only physical powers to match a Shazam wielder, but power over Hellfire as well. Unlike Ibac, Karnes kept his own personality, but since that personality was of a anarchist satanist and occultist who wanted to see the world burn, he was all too happy to follow the lead of his demonic masters and attempt to bring chaos and misery to the world. Sabbac has fought each of the Marvels separately, along with other heroes, and while he's never been successful yet, it isn't through a lack of trying. Loki: Loki turned his attention to Captain Marvel after witnessing his brother Thor team up with the Scion of Shazam, deciding that this straight laced hero would be easy pickings. Instead, he's found that Cap's good nature, sense of humor and acceptance of the bizarre meant that Cap found most of Loki's pranks "amusing" at best, and just another supervillain scheme to thwart at worst. Mister Mxyzptlk, a sometime partner of Loki's, pointed out that it was futile to try and get Cap's goat in this manner. The one time Myx had tried to mess with Cap, the 5-D imp got so frustrated that he swore off the World's Mightiest Mortal forever and decided to stick to harassing Superman. Loki hasn't taken this advice yet, and still schemes and plots against the Captain, which amuses Thor to no end. Mephisto: The innate purity of Captain Marvel's soul has made it highly prized amongst the ruling elite of Hell. Neron once brought Hell to Earth in an attempt to claim it, only to fail in the end. Mephisto had been trying to get his hand on Cap's soul before and after, and could have told Neron how difficult it would prove. The purity of Cap's soul is only part of the problem, the divine nature of his very powers makes him a dangerous foe for the demon lord, and the authority his role as Champion of Shazam gives him options other heroes lack. Still, Mephisto plots and schemes, certain that one day, Marvel's soul will be his. Annihilus: Cap has found himself in a rather difficult position when it comes to Mr. Mind and Annihilus. He first had to actually free Annihilus from Mr. Mind when the alien worm took over the Living Death that Walk's body, only to have to defend Mr. Mind from Annihilus' retaliatory strike a few days later. Since then, Cap has had to oppose Annihilus on more than one occassion, the Rock of Eternity and his own mystical nature allowing him to freely travel back and forth between the Negative Zone to freely battle the despot. Diablo: The alchemist Diablo has long sought mystical artifacts to enhance his power, and Captain Marvel makes it his job to keep such things out of the hands of men like Diablo. As a result, Cap has had to face down Diablo's wide assortment of elementals and alchemical tricks, and in an unfortunate twist as has actually wound up making Diablo more dangerous as the villain has stepped up his game to combat the World's Mightiest Mortal. Fing Fang Foom: Captain Marvel and fighting giant monsters just goes hand in hand, so when this alien dragon starts rampaging, Cap makes it a point to take him down. The Sphinx: The Sphinx was an old foe of Shazam's during his time as the Champion, and later fought Black Adam when Adam was still a hero. The Sphinx kept a low profile for thousands of years after, partially because he knew Shazam was watching, and waited until a new champion was chosen, so that he might be able to obtain the power/information he desired from a less experienced hero. When that failed due to the defeat Cap handed him, the Sphinx attempted to obtain similar power and knowledge from the hero Nova. Since then, the Marvel Family, the New Warriors and Nova have all taken turns thwarting whatever scheme the Sphinx is up to at the moment. Apocalypse: Captain Marvel is finding that an increasingly large part of his duties is to pick up fighting the evils that Shazam and Black Adam started fighting back in the day. Case in point, Apocalypse was another villain Black Adam had to contend with, though Apocalypse's "Survival of the Fittest" mentality held some appeal to Adam, even then. Since Apocalypse's return, however, Cap has had to face the villain down, especially when Apocalypse forcibly turned Black Adam into the new 'War'. The Juggernaut: The Juggernaut and Cap wind up fighting a great deal for two reasons. One is a difference in ideology, namely that the Juggernaut is essentially a bully, and Cap doesn't like bullies. The second is that the Juggernaut is one of the few villains that does mercenary work who is powerful enough to go toe to toe with Captain Marvel. So whenever something goes down in Fawcett city and the villains in question need someone who might have a chance of keeping Cap occupied, the Juggernaut is usually the one they call. This ironically means that a sizable amount of the Juggernaut's income comes from Fawcett City, which he's actually taken a liking to, and has even defended from 'worse' supervillains that have threatened it on occassion. Captain Marvel also wound up getting involved in the Exemplars incident, both the initial battle and the Avengers team up that followed. Mojo: Part of Cap's duties as Champion of the Rock of Eternity is to defend the world from interdimensional threats. Mojo's shinanigans are more annoying than threatening, but still Cap's wound up having to face the dimensional dictator when he's kidnapped people from Earth or any number of similar plots from him. Cap has unfortunately proven a very popular to the Mojo-verse audience, and has wound up becoming a 'guest star' on the shows several times. Dracula: Dracula is just one of those supernatural badies that is like a cockroach, never seeming to stay gone no matter how many times the heroes of Earth put him down. Dr. Strange, Blade, Captain Marvel and other heroes have worked tirelessly to defeat the monster, only for him to rise up time and time again. It's no mystery then that Captain Marvel wound up giving his friend Captain Britain a hand when Dracula launched his latest invasion of Earth. Dormammu: As stated before, Cap is both a friend of Dr. Strange and someone who spends a great deal of time defending against interdimensional threats. As such, he's butted heads with Dormammu several times, whether with Strange, with the Marvel Family, or by himself, and so far good has triumphed in those instances, but often just barely. MightyDavidson wrote: Power Pack is probably a group Cap's teamed up with, but not as frequently as other heroes, given how Power Pack isn't really all that active and keeps a somewhat low profile. When they have teamed up, Cap's always treated them with respect and the Pack find him very easy to get along with. This actually causes some confusion for the kids tho, as they can't figure out why they can get along so well with an adult like he was someone their own age. Cap of course, simply grins. As for which heroes Cap has fought, in the Mighty Marvel tradition he's had throw downs with pretty much all of the big guns at one time or another, much like in the DCU. Thor, Hercules, the Hulk, the Silver Surfer, Namor, Wonder Man, Gladiator, Black Bolt, even entire rosters of the X-Men have gone up against Cap at various points, whether due to misunderstandings, mind control or simply being on opposing sides of an incident. However, none of them have ended on such a note that they'd be considered part of his rogues gallery. Really, you have to try very hard to not get along with Cap, so his only rogues are out and out supervillains. Even guys like Wolverine can get along with him just fine, so you'd need someone like Lobo for Cap to consider you an out and out villain. Post by MightyDavidson » Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:43 pm And little does Alex Power know that Captain Marvel and his IM chat friend Billy Batson are one in the same! Out of curiousity how many versions of the Monster Society of Evil have their been in this universe and how many times has Cap had to call in help to defeat them? Post by Ares » Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:07 am MightyDavidson wrote: And little does Alex Power know that Captain Marvel and his IM chat friend Billy Batson are one in the same! Heh, that works for me. Alex: "Srriously Billy, u have NO idea how annoying having a superpowered family can be." Billy: "LOL." My take on the Monster Society in this setting would be that it's Mr. Mind's collection of genetically advanced monsters, animal men and so forth, explaining the kind of half-men/half-animal villains we'd see in the classic Captain Marvel books, rather than a supervillain team of Captain Marvel's foes. I might change my mind later, but I think this works better for the "Monster Society" concept. When Captain Marvels foes have teamed up in the past, it would probably be a less formal thing than an official team, or I might decide that Mr. Mind formed the "Secret Society of Supervillains", while the traditional SSoS of the DCU would be the Legion of Doom, who in this universe were organized by Dr. Doom himself. It's something up in the air at the moment. Return to “Mutants & Masterminds Settings”	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line490
__label__wiki	0.546172	0.546172	Home \| About us \| Editorial board \| Search \| Ahead of print \| Current issue \| Archives \| Submit article \| Instructions \| Subscribe \| Advertise \| Contacts \| Reader Login 2015\| April-June \| Volume 5 \| Issue 2 Online since March 30, 2015 Hide all abstracts Show selected abstracts Export selected to Assessment of drug-drug interactions in hypertensive patients at a superspeciality hospital Divya Sivva, Uday Venkat Mateti, Venu Madhav Neerati, Nimbagiri Swamy Thiruthopu, Srinivas Martha April-June 2015, 5(2):29-35 Objective: The objective of the study was to assess the incidence and pattern of drug-drug interactions (DDIs) in hypertensive patients by using Micromedex and Medscape databases. Materials and Methods: A prospective observational study was carried out in a superspeciality hospital setting in South India for period of 9 months. Hypertensive patients who admitted into the hospital with the age more than 18 years, received more than 3 drugs per prescription and length of hospital stay for more than 24 hours were included in the study. An appropriate data was collected and assessed for DDIs with the help of Micromedex and Medscape databases. Results: A total of 227 patients were enrolled during the study period. Among the 227 patients, 48 of them developed 53 clinically significant DDIs. Out of 48 patients, most of them were in the age-group of 50-60 years [18 (37.49%)]. The percentage of DDIs were higher in males [30 (62.5%)] compared to females [18 (37.5%)]. The most common drugs responsible for DDIs in the present study were Insulin [18 (33.96%)] followed by Metoprolol [10 (18.86%)], Torsemide [8 (15.09%)], and Hydrochlorothiazide [8 (15.09%)]. The most commonly interacting pairs were Ciprofloxacin-Insulin [6 (11.32%)], followed by Metoprolol-Insulin [4 (7.54%)] and Atenolol-Insulin [4 (7.54%)]. The most common consequences of interacting pairs were reduced serum potassium levels and hyperglycemia. Conclusion: The overall incidence rate of DDIs was found to be 21.14% and the increasing number of co-morbidities ( P ≤ 0.003) and polypharmacy ( P ≤ 0.002) were the risk factor for the development of significant number of DDIs. Oral manifestations of Parry-Romberg syndrome: A review of literature Nader A Al-Aizari, Saleh Nasser Azzeghaiby, Hashem Motahir Al-Shamiri, Shourouk Darwish, Bassel Tarakji Parry-Romberg syndrome (PRS) or progressive facial hemiatrophy is a developmental craniofacial disorder of unknown etiology characterized by a slowly progressive unilateral facial atrophy. It is associated with different systemic manifestations particularly, maxillofacial, neurologic and ophthalmologic abnormalities. Dentists must be aware of PRS to identify this invalidating disorder. In this article, we review the etiology, clinical features (especially craniofacial and dental manifestations) and treatment of PRS. We searched in PubMed line using specific words such as PRS from 2008 to 2014 (August). We identify 14 papers have described oral manifestations of this syndrome. We excluded all the article papers that did not indicate to oral manifestations of PRS. [ABSTRACT] [FULL TEXT] [PDF] [Mobile Full text] [EPub] [CITATIONS] [PubMed] Biweekly gemcitabine and paclitaxel in patients with relapsed or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck Ammar Sukari, Marwan Al-Al-Hajeili, Mohamed Salem, Amin Alousi, Lance Heilbrun, Daryn Smith, George Yoo, John R Jacobs, Ho-Sheng Lin, Omer Kucuk Purpose: We conducted a Phase II, clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a biweekly gemcitabine and paclitaxel (GEMTAX) regimen as second-line treatment in patients with recurrent or metastatic unresectable, squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN). The primary endpoint was response rate. Patients and Methods: Patients with recurrent unresectable or metastatic platinum refractory SCCHN, who had performance status ≤2 and adequate organ function, were eligible. Gemcitabine (3000 mg/m 2 intravenous) and paclitaxel (150 mg/m 2 intravenous) was given on days 1 and 15of 4 weeks cycle, until patients had disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Results: Disease control (partial response [PR] + complete response [CR] + stable disease [SD]) was noted in 19 patients (54%) and overall response (CR + PR) was noted in 8 patients (23%). However, the most frequent response outcomes were progressive disease in 16 patients (46%) and SD in 11 patients (31%). The most frequent Grade 3-4 adverse events were lymphopenia in 38 patients (75%), anemia in 20 patients (39%), and infection in 16 patients (31%). Median progression-free survival was 3.6 months; median overall survival was 6.3 months. Conclusion: The biweekly GEMTAX regimen has statistically significant grade 3 and 4 adverse events and has meaningful clinical activity as a second-line treatment in patients with recurrent or metastatic SCCHN who have received prior chemotherapy. This regimen may particularly be a useful treatment option in patients who progressed in <6 months of concurrent chemoradiotherapy with high-dose cisplatin and/or have recurrent/metastatic platinum refractory SCCHN. 3,142 255 2 Sorafenib induced acral pigmentation: A new entity Mrinal Gupta, Heena Gupta, Anish Gupta Sorafenib is a multikinase inhibitor commonly used for the treatment of advanced renal cell and hepatocellular carcinoma. The commonly reported dermatological adverse effects of Sorafenib include hand-foot syndrome (HFS), alopecia, pruritus, facial and scalp erythema, splinter hemorrhages, keratoacanthomas, squamous cell carcinomas and eruptive melanocytic naevi. We report a case of asymptomatic hyperpigmentation of the palms and soles in a patient receiving Sorafenib therapy for advanced renal cell carcinoma, in the absence of features of classic HFS, which has not been previously reported in the literature. Extensive vascular occlusions as initial presentations of systemic lupus erythematosis. A case report and review of literature Mohamed Elsharawy, Manal Hasan, Ibrahiem Saeed Abdul-Rahman, Bandar Al-Dhofairy, Ayman Elsaid Widespread arterial and venous thrombosis is a very rare initial presentation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We report a case with extensive vascular occlusion as the initial manifestation of SLE. Although these cases have high morbidity and mortality, yet our patient recovered with minimal complications. A rare case of coronary artery fistula presented with acute myocardial infarction Osama Abdalhadi Smettei, Rami Mahmood Abazid Coronary artery fistulas (CAFs): Are anomalous connections of the coronary arteries (CA) with major vascular structures or heart chambers. Most of CAFs are incidental findings during invasive coronary angiography (ICA) or computed tomography angiography (CTA). Many patients with CAFs are asymptomatic; only a minority has been associated with various clinical features and outcomes. We have reported a rare CAF complicated with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in 43 years old female Patient who was admitted to our institution with a Diagnosis of Acute Infero-Posterior Myocardial Infarction (AMI). ICA and CTA showed a thrombosed CAF between left main coronary artery and right atrium with totally occluded left circumflex artery by a thrombus extended from the fistula. As there was a high risk associated with immediate intervention, the patient was kept on conservative management with a future plan of catheter-assisted or surgical closure. We have shown a rare case of CAF presenting with AMI that is unusual for such an anomaly, and have highlighted the role of CTA in the diagnosis and management of such rare disorder. Assessment of pathogenic micro-organisms in commercially available smokeless tobacco products Pooja J Shetty, Vijaya Hegde	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line492
__label__wiki	0.808185	0.808185	Ashley Greene Interview 2012 Ashley Greene Covers Lucky Magazine March 2012 Ashley Greene, ashley greene lucky 2012, ashley greene photos 2012 After having her breakthrough role as Alice Cullen in the hit film adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's novels, Twilight actress Ashley Greene found herself put in line with some of the highest ranked actresses in Hollywood, and this is not something that every young actress manages to experience in such little time. Talking with Lucky Magazine, for the publication's March 2012 issue, Ashley shares her take on her success and life after Twilight among others. Ms. Greene who's become a style icon for girls all over the world shows off her ravishi... Read More Ashley Greene Lingerie Babe in Esquire August 2012 Feature Ashley Greene, Ashley Greene Esquire 2012, ashley greene interview 2012 With the last part of 'Twilight' closing in for its première this fall and her new movie 'The Apparition' about to hit the theaters next month, actress Ashley Greene landed a feature in Esquire August 2012, where the hottie opened up about working on the highly successful movie, the sacrifices she made for her career and more, all while channeling her inner goddess as she posed seductively donning nothing but sexy lingerie for the camera lens of Brooke Nipar for Esquire. She's proved her talent playing the role of Alice Cullen and now she's ... Read More Ashley Greene Covers Nylon Magazine August 2012 Issue Ashley Greene, Ashley Greene Nylon August 2012, ashley greene interview 2012 Ashley Greene has received a lot of attention lately. Not just for her role in the Twilight franchise but also for her keen sense of fashion. If we've recently gotten the chance to see her as an elegant city girl in the DKNY fall 2012 ads, the Nylon magazine August 2012 issue presents a more casual side of her. The 25 year old star looks spectacular in a series of sexy yet classy ensembles in the newest photoshoot. In the accompanying interview for the magazine, the star talks about her decision to keep her waitress job after landing the Twi... Read More Ashley Greene Covers Seventeen December 2012 Ashley Greene, Ashley Greene Seventeen 2012, Ashley Greene photos In time for the premiere of the 'Twilight' finale, actress Ashley Greene lands the cover of Seventeen December 2012. In the accompanying interview, she opens up about various topics including her exes, the public breakup of her co-stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, the secret surprise coordinated at the end of a Twilight scene and more. The 25-year-old actress looks stunning in the photos shot for Seventeen's December 2012 issue as she can be seen wearing perfectly sculpted long, loose locks, fabulous all-natural makeup and an array... Read More Ashley Greene Covers Marie Claire November 2012 Ashley Greene, Ashley Greene Marie Claire November 2012, ashley greene interview 2012 Ashley Greene graces Marie Claire's November 2012 cover. The beautiful 25-year-old actress sits down for a chat with the magazine and dishes on fame, career, but also about personal life and relationships. Ashley was only 17 when she first came to L.A. "It was definitely hard," Greene recalls. "But nothing positive comes out of being bitter. You just have to keep on working." Greene confesses she was quite unprepared for the overnight stardom that resulted after Twilight became one of the most successful franchises in the film histo... Read More Ashley Greene Covers Cosmopolitan August 2012 Ashley Greene, Ashley Greene Cosmopolitan 2012, ashley greene interview 2012 Ashley Greene is one busy girl! The 25-year-old actress has two films set to be released, 'The Apparition', which hits theaters this month, and 'Butter', a satirical comedy, that's out later this year. Besides, in November, 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn: Part 2' will be released. Moreover, Greene is also the face of two different brands, DKNY and Mark cosmetics. Sitting down for a chat with Cosmopolitan, Greene reveals she has been sleeping "about five hours a night'. "Right now, there's so much going on that my brain just won't shut off... Read More	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line493
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History of the M9 M9 in the News The New M9A3 Faces of the M9 Join the B-Club App Beretta Warranty Activation Home\|World of Beretta\|Community\|News - Details News - Details Beretta USA to Locate New Manufacturing Facility in Sumner County, Tennessee NASHVILLE – Beretta USA officials along with Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bill Hagerty announced today the company will expand its U.S. operations by building a new firearms manufacturing plant in the Gallatin Industrial Park. Beretta, a global manufacturer of high-quality sporting and military firearms, will invest $45 million in a state-of-the-art manufacturing and R&D facility. Beretta will create 300 new Tennessee jobs. The company is expected to complete construction on the facility this year. Beretta is the world’s oldest manufacturing dynasty, operating since 1526 in Italy. The company is privately owned and operated by members of the 15th and 16th generations of the Beretta family. Beretta supplies quality sporting and self-defense firearms to consumers worldwide. The company manufactures the U.S. Armed Forces M-9 pistol, the standard sidearm of U.S. soldiers since 1985. Beretta will make firearms at the new Gallatin plant from both their sporting and tactical product lines. “Beretta is one of the world’s greatest companies, and their decision to expand into Tennessee speaks to the standards of craftsmanship and quality our state’s workforce embraces every day,” Haslam said. “Attracting a legendary company like Beretta reinforces our goal of becoming the No. 1 location in the Southeast for high-quality jobs. I want to thank the Beretta family for their substantial investment in Tennessee and the 300 jobs they’ll create in Sumner County.” “Today’s significant announcement by Beretta USA is a historic moment for the state of Tennessee, the Haslam Administration and ECD,” Hagerty said. “Beretta is one of the best brands in the world. Tennessee’s global reputation for manufacturing in an artisan tradition means we are able to attract companies like Beretta, with a proven commitment to excellence. Tennessee continues to earn global accolades for our business climate, and we boast the best balance sheet in the nation. I appreciate Beretta’s decision to locate in Tennessee, and we look forward to a partnership that will last centuries.” “From the moment when we started to consider a location outside of the State of Maryland for our manufacturing expansion, Governor Haslam and his economic development team did an excellent job demonstrating the benefits of doing business in Tennessee. We are convinced we could find no better place than Tennessee to establish our new manufacturing enterprise. We look forward to building operations here and being part of your community for many years to come,” said Franco Gussalli Beretta, Vice President and Managing Director of Fabbrica D Armi S.p.A and Executive Vice President of Beretta USA. “When Beretta chooses a location for its business, we start with the possibility that we will be in that location for decades, if not hundreds of years, to come. We move forward with confidence knowing that Tennessee is a great place to do business. We look forward to our opportunities here and we look forward to working side-by-side with our new Tennessee neighbors,” said Jeff Reh, Member of the Board of Directors for Beretta USA. Beretta, established in 1526, is the oldest industrial dynasty in the world tracing its roots through 16 generations of continuous family ownership. Firearms bearing the Beretta name have been sold for almost 500 years. Beretta USA Corp. was founded in 1977 and supplies the standard sidearm to the U.S. Armed Forces. Today, Beretta manufactures, distributes and markets a complete line of firearms, accessories and apparel. Beretta also owns and operates six retail Beretta Gallery stores worldwide. For additional information, visit www.beretta.com. Media Contact: Ryan Muety - RMuety@berettausa.com (240) 216-6366 Read the full transcript of Vice President and Managing Director of Fabbrica D Armi S.p.A and Executive Vice President of Beretta USA's Franco Gussalli Beretta's speech here. Read the full transcript of Beretta USA's Board of Directors Member Jeff Reh's speech here. Beretta USA Corp. – 17601 Beretta Drive – Accokeek, MD 20607 (U.S) \| Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta S.p.A. (Italy) VAT 01541040174 \| Site Map \| Terms & Conditions \| Privacy Policy	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line496
__label__wiki	0.510092	0.510092	Artoffact – Ghost Twin and Glamatron reissue will be released soon Ghost Twin Plastic Heart Artoffact Records Combining roaring synthlines, dirty pulsing bass, dreamy guitar and a haunting vocal dichotomy where Baroque meets industrial. Produced by Maya Postepski (Austra, Tr/st, Princess Century) and Michael P. Falk (Head in the Sand, Les Jupes). Postepski also provides live percussion, drum machine programming, and additional vocals. Features 11 tracks imbued with occult aesthetics, including Blue Room, Not Our Time, Mystic Sabbath, The Haunt and Chymical Wedding. “Retro sleaze ball synths buzz around eerie baroque vocals.” – Julijana Capone, Beatroute Limited edition Chymical Blue vinyl. 200 copies worldwide. Comes with an insert. Glamatron! Only the Heart Beats… Formed around 1980 by punk rocker Rude van Steenes (ARSON) and Kurt LaPorte, GLAMATRON! is one of the best kept crate-digger secrets in the Canadian vaults. Their sole LP, Only the Heart Beats….Inside the Silence was self-released in 1981, and proudly showed its influences, Bowie, Roxy Music, Lou Reed, Marc Bolan & T-Rex, as well as early Ultravox, Wire and Magazine, on its sleeve. The band played several shows and made radio and television appearances, recorded a second album (which was shelved) and ultimately broke up in 1984. van Steenes and LaPorte then formed Vis-A-Vis, which was nominated for two awards and won the 1987 CASBY Award for Best Independent Artist. This Artoffact Records reissue includes the entire Only the Heart Beats LP on Side A, while the unreleased album, Chrome Horizons, is released for the first time on Side B. van Steenes shares his memories of GLAMATRON! and the early New Wave scene on an insert included in the package. The vinyl is available on black or collectors’ pink and also comes with an amazing fold-out poster. The CD edition includes bonus tracks not available on the vinyl, including live recordings from Toronto’s famous Rivoli club, as well as a band interview originally broadcast on CHUM-FM. DJ T-1000 “Ratchet Traxx EP” out on BPitch Control Borghesia – new single “Rodovnik” Frank Rothkamm: This is a really interesting conversation with Los Angeles-based German electronic composer and musician, philosopher and conceptual artist Frank Rothkamm. In 2010, Frank was diagnosed with tinnitus, a brain disorder that disturbed his sleep. He started to research a proper treatment that would so... Equipo: Roger Benat described his feeling while being behind the wheel and listening to "Simulaciones", the album by the Barcelona-based producer Juan Cristobal Saavedra a.k.a. Equipo that was released by clang some months ago. He stated: "It is a perfect simulation of its source; it has lost all referenc... Little Sap Dungeon: All around us are a lot of almost unknown dark Electro/Industrial bands, which produce some marvelous stuff that is worth buying and checking out. Hailing from the dark Salt Lake City roster, here comes the scary duo LITTLE SAP DUNGEON, consisting of Alan ... Larsen: Chain D.L.K.: Ages ago I remember I saw you live in Turin's El Paso squat with Daniele Brusaschetto, at the time you were barely known. Today you organize events/gigs like the Throbbing Gristle reunion in Turin, Larsen have collaborated with Michael... Mako: All those who follow my d'n'b-related posts should know that one of the producers I like to follow is Bristol-based Stephen "Mako" Redmore, mainly due to his awesome style, which manages to combine atmospheric sonorities and brain-n-body-teasing rolling beats. His very first steps in the d'n'b sce...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line502
__label__wiki	0.538913	0.538913	Chess News Chess Previews 2012 Chess videos Chess bits Magnus Carlsen and Kateryna Lagno are World Blitz Champions! The King Salman World Blitz Chess Championship concluded today in the Manege, St. Petersburg, with Magnus Carlsen (Norway) and Kateryna Lagno (Russia) emerging champions of their respective sections. After missing the podium in the Rapid Championship, Magnus Carlsen played much better in the Blitz event, holding the top position from the very beginning and securing the gold medal with 17/21 points. This is Carlsen’s fourth world blitz title, having previously won in Moscow 2009, Dubai 2014 and Riyadh 2017. Half a point behind the winner is Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland), who has had a powerful run of 8 consecutive victories in the mid-tournament. Hikaru Nakamura (USA) took the bronze medal with 14,5 points, two points behind Duda. Duda, Carlsen and Nakamura (photo by Lennart Ootes) Magnus Carlsen said: “I am just relieved. Today was a very tough day. I was in front but being chased, and this is never easy. Yesterday the score was good, and the play was maybe not as great, but I feel I am usually best against the best players. Today I played very well and needed every single half point to win.” Kateryna Lagno (Russia) maintained the good form from the first day of the Championship and emerged clear winner of the Women’s section with 13,5/17 points. This is her second gold medal, the first was won in 2010. Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (Iran) took the silver medal with 13 points. Just like yesterday, she started the day with a loss, but then finished superbly with 4,5 points in the last five rounds. Lei Tingjie (China) claimed the bronze medal with 12,5 points, despite the last round loss to her compatriot Tan Zhongyi. She was fortunate that the main competitor Valentina Gunina was also defeated. Khademalsharieh, Lagno and Tingjie (photo by Lennart Ootes) Kateryna Lagno stated: “I am very happy, of course. It is interesting that I didn’t lose a single game. Of course I was lucky in some games, but managed to hold them, and I think this is the first time in my life when I did not lose a single game in a blitz tournament.” The 2nd King Salman World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships were held from 26-30th December in St.Petersburg, Russia. Houdini 6 PRO Aquarium 2018 (download) Available in the Chessdom shop... Mobile chess application by Chess Arena Available now in the app store for FREE!... Chess Assistant 17 PRO With Houdini 5 and a complete set of tools... Houdini Aquarium PRO 2017 (New!) With Houdini 5 PRO inside... Chess, chess news and tournaments by Chessdom © 2007 - 2018	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line503
__label__cc	0.667646	0.332354	Singer, Jennifer Buttell also known as Jeniblue on The Gigi Iam Show Live Broadcast in Entertainment Fri, Mar 19, 2010 02:00AM UTC Gigi Iam If you liked this show, you should follow Gigi Iam. s:917589 jennifer buttell jeniblue barry fasman a-list celebrities internet tv music movies filmmakers sex love money power empower Popular TV Producer, Model, Singer, Talk Show Host & Actress Gigi Iam interviews and talks with Jennifer Buttell, Jeniblue on The Gigi Iam Show Live. Jeniblue has been singing since the age of 12. “I use to put a rocking chair in the middle of the room, turn the stereo on, turn the lights off, and rock to the beat of many great artists such as, Diana Ross & the Supremes, Barbra Streisand, The Beatles, and John Denver.” After performing fifteen years in musical theatre productions such as, My Fair Lady, Chicago, Oklahoma, and many more, she got a gig singing back ground vocals for rap artist, Blaize Man, recording jazzy melodies on his tunes. That experience inspired her to write her own songs, and after being introduced to long time producer, Barry Fasman, who was impressed not only by her voice but also her writing skills, they created her first CD, “Gotcha”, a Jazzy-Pop feel good project. Now she and Barry have finished Jeniblue’s new CD, “Scarlet Road”, which is a mixture of Blues, Rock, and Country with lots of rich, sexy, feel good rhythms. You're invited to Call-in, join in on the conversation and Fun! Call-in number is 347-215-8089. For more details about Gigi Iam and The Gigi Iam Show log onto the Official Website at http://www.gigiiam.com You are invited to join our Community there too! For those interested in sponsoring or advertising contact us on our Official Website. Thank you for your support and interest.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line509
__label__wiki	0.924652	0.924652	Publisher delays US release of Naomi Wolf book, 'Outrages' NEW YORK - Naomi Wolf's U.S. publisher is postponing the release of her new book, "Outrages," after a BBC interviewer challenged some of her findings. Wolf is openly objecting to the delay. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced that "new questions" had come up about "Outrages," originally scheduled to come out next week. It already has been published in the United Kingdom. Last month, BBC interviewer Matthew Sweet questioned Wolf's research on the book, which centres on the mistreatment of gays in Victorian England. On Friday, Wolf tweeted that she made what she thought were the needed changes and that she believed her book's core findings remained valid. She wrote that she strongly objected to the decision. Wolf, best known for the bestselling "The Beauty Myth," has often faced questions about accuracy in her work. Naomi Wolf Outrages US industrial production unchanged in June 'Schitt's Creek' and its stars among Canadians with Emmy nominations Jonathan Jennings working out with Ottawa Redblacks' starting offence Arbitrator upholds CFL's suspension against Ticats' linebacker Lawrence Steve Cannon, writer and patron of the arts, dead at 84	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line511
__label__wiki	0.645356	0.645356	RetroFantasma Film Series Peter Hyams’ 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT & Michael Crichton’s LOOKER Peter Hyams’ 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT (PG, 1984, 116 min) A new time, a new odyssey, a new chance to confront enigmas arising from the daring Jupiter mission of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Crew members aboard the Leonov rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery. And their fate rests on the silicon shoulders of the computer they reawaken, HAL-9000. Based on Arthur C. Clarke’s sequel, director Peter Hyams spellbinder was nominated for five Academy Awards. Starring Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban and Keir Dullea. Michael Crichton’s LOOKER (PG, 1981, 93 min) Long before the concept of CGI was in the ether, writer/director Crichton predicted that computers would someday replace live actors on film sets in this mind-bending thriller. Albert Finney stars as a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon whose supermodel clients start dying mysteriously. Susan Dey plays his latest patient, also now in peril. And James Coburn is the head of a research facility which has developed a subtly hypnotic way to sell things. Season Pass $80 \| Individual Tickets $9.50 7:00pm Cinema One IMDb 2010 IMDb Looker	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line519
__label__wiki	0.747702	0.747702	Tourism Gozo San Antonio Guesthouse Discount Holiday Offers Gozo, l’isola dalle tre anime – Capodanno Gozo, un’isola pomschizzilliosa e grombifera Property Seach Ghajnsielem Gharb Ghasri Kercem Marsalforn Mgarr Harbour Munxar Nadur Qala Sannat Xaghra Xewkija Xlendi Zebbug Gozo Cultural Events Getting to Gozo Gozo Beaches Ferry - Summer Timetable Ferry - Mid-Season Timetable Ferry - Winter Season Timetable Isopu Tower - Nadur Dwejra Tower - Gozo Dwejra Tower is situated just off the road leading to the small enclosed bay at Dwejra in Gozo, known as the ‘inland sea’. It was completed in 1652 and periodically used by British forces up to the second World War when it was used as an observation post. It was completed in 1652 during the time of Grand Master Jean Paul Lascaris Castellar and funded by the Universita’ of Gozo. A Capo Mastro or Castellano was in charge of the Tower and raised money to cover expenses by producing salt from the salt pans in front of the Tower. In 1744 Grand Master Pinto had the sides of nearby Fungus Rock, home of the fabled fungus that had special medicinal powers, smoothed over to make access more difficult. The Tower was still in use during the eighteenth century when it was equipped with three 6-pounder guns. It was manned by the Royal Malta Fencible Artillery between 1839 and 1873 but then abandoned. During the summer of 1914 Maltese troops from the King’s Own Malta Regiment and the Royal Malta Artillery were dispatched to the coastal watch towers and Dwejra Tower was manned by No 3 Company with two, later four, 12-pounder guns. During the Second World War the Tower was used as an Observation Post. One recorded incident was the rescue of a Royal Air Force pilot, whose Spitfire had crashed in Dwejra Bay in 1942, by Captain Frank Debono and Carmelo Zahra of Victoria. In 1956 the Tower was leased to Gerald de Trafford for a period of fifty years. It was passed on loan to Din l-Art Helwa who commenced restoration work in 1997, which was completed two years later. A considerable amount of stonework had to be replaced on the outside and flagstones laid inside. The Tower is open to the public Monday to Friday and on Sundays and Public Holidays from 10.30 to 12.30 and 13.15 to 15.30, when the flag is flying. Requests for school group visits please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Bookings may be made for visits by schools by contacting Mario Gauci 2156 0641 / 7956 0641 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Made by Discover Gozo	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line526
__label__wiki	0.773176	0.773176	Mixx Facebook Twitter Digg delicious reddit MySpace StumbleUpon Dealing with tears at work Crying is an emotional expression like laughter or anger, experts say Expert: Be careful you're crying at an appropriate time and place "It is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of being human," psychologist says Only you can decide what damage crying would do to your career, experts say Next Article in Living » By Anthony Balderrama CareerBuilder.com writer Editor's note: CNN.com has a business partnership with CareerBuilder.com, which serves as the exclusive provider of job listings and services to CNN.com. Experts disagree on whether crying at the office is OK. In a Q-and-A session with voters the day before a 2008 presidential primary, former White House-hopeful Hillary Clinton got a little choked up during her response to a question. She didn't bawl or wail or even leave the stage to regroup in private. Her eyes watered, she continued to answer the question, and then she moved on to another topic. She handily won the primary the next day. TV pundits and bloggers couldn't stop talking about her. Not her politics but her "show of emotion." They wondered how people would respond: Was it the end of her campaign? Was it a setback for women? Was it staged to get attention? Her response, for what it's worth, was that her desire to improve the country kept her going during the longest presidential primary campaign in the history of the United States. Although few high profile politicians shed tears on the campaign trail, did that moment really merit all the hoopla? Crying isn't just any emotion When it comes to crying on the job, we are not logical beings. Peruse the articles about Clinton's tears and you'll see "emotional" appear over and over again. Is exhaustion any more emotional than joy or anger? Do we call co-workers who laugh a lot emotional? How about screaming bosses? What your zodiac sign says about your career What TV characters would earn in real life More CareerBuilder.com stories Yet, as annoying as your cubicle neighbor's incessant cackling might be, it probably doesn't earn him an unfavorable reputation with his peers. If he cried on a regular basis, he might not fare so well, a fact that bothers some professionals. "Saying that crying is inappropriate is like saying that having emotions is inappropriate," says Laurent Duperval, communications coach and consultant. "Crying is the expression of an emotion, just like any other, except that it has negative stigma associated with it." The right time and place Don't assume, however, that tears are always acceptable. Just like any other show of emotion, crying has an appropriate time and place. You wouldn't laugh during a conference where the boss says quarterly earnings are at an all-time low but you would laugh if the boss told a funny (or at least he thinks it's funny) joke. "It generally depends on how and why it happened. If it is a recurring event, if it is a tactic that is used to get one's way, yes that can damage your career because eventually people will catch on," Duperval says. "If the crying is accompanied with a tantrum or with violence, it is almost always inappropriate." Perhaps the only instance where crying is widely acceptable is when receiving bad news, such as the death of someone you know. You're not a robot, after all. Organizational psychologist Marcia Reynolds agrees. "Though I don't think anyone should cry on purpose, a spontaneous cry is only damaging to the person who feels they are weak because they are crying," she says. "It is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of being human." As in most work situations, co-workers and bosses expect you to be professional. If you cry when your boss reprimands you or gives you a negative review, you're probably not earning the best reputation. The gender factor When you discuss tears in the office, you can't ignore the role sexism -- both past and present -- plays. If a woman cries at work, misogynists are ready to label her as weak -- proof of women as the fairer sex. Other co-workers are put in the awkward position of not wanting to appear too touchy and still not come off as too cold. For this reason, not everyone sees crying as just any regular act. "It is unprofessional behavior to cry in the office," says Sandy Dumont, an image consultant for the Image Architect. "This is particularly true if you are a woman, because it causes men to feel helpless to fix the situation, as well as possible guilt at having upset you." While being a woman complicates an already difficult situation, you can't always control your tears, just as you can't always silence laughter or quell your anger -- regardless of your gender. And with conflicting opinions on the acceptance of workplace emotions, you can't definitively say there is a right or wrong answer. The only constant is that you know yourself and your work environment better than anybody else, so only you can decide what damage crying can cause your career, if any. Mixx Facebook Twitter Digg del.icio.us reddit MySpace StumbleUpon \| Mixx it \| Share Copyright CareerBuilder.com 2009. All rights reserved. The information contained in this article may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority All About Jobs and Labor From the Blogs: Controversy, commentary, and debate Sit tight, we're getting to the good stuff powered by Sphere Senators 'troubled' after Rice meeting Bergen: Senseless Benghazi obsession	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line531
__label__cc	0.586016	0.413984	Shanghai Tower J-Hotel – The World’s Highest Luxury Hotel Due to Open in 2014 by Arsa December 26, 2010, 12:43 458 Views Interstate Hotels & Resorts – Shanghai Tower J-Hotel After Hong Kong’s promise of the highest hotel by March when it will occupy floors 112 to 118 of the International Commerce Centre, Shanghai leaps a little higher for the same glory. By 2014, the Shanghai Tower J-Hotel will be the tallest building in China, the second tallest in the world and the highest hotel in the world. Due to open in 2014, the new Shanghai Tower J-Hotel is the centerpiece of the stunning Shanghai Tower, The super-tall, 632-meter Tower is sited in the heart of Shanghai’s Lujiazui finance and trade zone, adjacent to the Jin Mao tower and Shanghai World Financial Center. A 128-stories tower is designed by Marshall Strabala, the Houston-based architectural designer, who was designed three of the world’s 10-tallest buildings, including the Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building and the 420-meter (1380 feet) Nanjing Greenland Financial Center in Nanjing China. Interstate Hotels & Resorts - Shanghai Tower J-Hotel Shanghai Tower is organized as nine cylindrical buildings stacked one atop another. The inner layer of the double-skin façade encloses the stacked buildings, while a triangular exterior layer creates the second skin, or building envelope, which gently rotates as it rises. The spaces between the two façade layers create nine atrium sky gardens. The tower, commissioned by Shanghai Tower Construction and Development Co., Ltd, will be the tallest in China with the highest open air observation deck in the world. Consisting of office space, a luxury hotel, retail and cultural venues the building will also hold connections to the Shanghai Metro and three floors of parking below ground level. The establishment, a new brand of Shanghai Jin Jiang International Hotels (Group) Co., Ltd. (Jin Jiang Hotels), will span the 84th to 110th floors of the Shanghai Tower. The hotel will feature 258 luxury guestrooms with the hotel lobby located on the 101st floor. Jin Jiang Hotels said it will be the world’s tallest luxury hotel when it opens in late 2014 or early 2015, surpassing the Park Hyatt Shanghai, which currently holds the honor. The 828-meter-high Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which opened early this year, is the world’s tallest skyscraper. But its hotel, fashion designer Giorgio Armani’s first, only occupies the 160-level structure’s lower stories. The Shanghai Tower J Hotel will also challenge the new Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong expected to open next year. Keeping up with an updated luxury theme, the hotel will display ultra-modern and uber classy blended with the richness of Chinese culture in its interiors. This is leading Chinese hotel group, Jin Jiang’s latest luxury brand and will be managed by Interstate Hotels & Resorts Company Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of a joint venture between US-based private equity real estate firm Thayer Lodging Group and Shanghai’s Jin Jiang International Hotels Group Company Limited. architectural designerbuilding envelopeburj dubaicommerce centreInterstate Hotels & Resortsjin jiang hotelsjin mao towerluxury guestroomsnanjing chinaobservation deckshanghai metroShanghai Tower J-Hotelshanghai world financial centertallest building in chinatallest buildingsTower J-Hotel Previous article Limited Edition Ulysse Nardin Maxi Marine Diver Boutique Watch Next article Mini Paceman Concept – The Most Expensive Mini Ever Mini Paceman Concept – The Most Expensive Mini Ever Adventurous Mini Countryman AirTop With Tent On The Roof New Mini Clubman At Geneva Motor Show Kingdom Tower – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Dubai Opens Atmosphere – World’s Highest Restaurant Dubai Fountain – World’s Tallest and Most Expensive Fountain In The World More From: Travel & Vacation New Reason To Visit China – JW Marriott Hotel Qufu by Slamchica June 5, 2019, 17:04 Secret Luxury Of Maldives by Slamchica May 8, 2019, 20:00 Limited Edition Ulysse Nardin Maxi Marine Diver Boutique Watch	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line542
__label__wiki	0.509295	0.509295	ACCSH 1994-5, exh 17, Safety and Health Programs Report and Recommendations OSHA Advisory Committee for Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH) ACCSH – Selected Workgroup Notes & Materials The OSHA Advisory Committee for Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH) was authorized in the 1969 Construction Safety Act (US Code Title 40§3704, to advise OSHA on matters related to construction safety and health. It consists of five public representatives (one is normally from a State OSHA program, one from NIOSH, etc.), five labor representatives (normally from various Building Trades Unions) and five management representatives (primarily from contractor trade associations). The ACCSH often sets up work groups, which are open to the public, to draft positions on various topics or issues. These positions are then often voted on by the full ACCSH and those recommendations referred to OSHA for their consideration. This collection includes selected historical notes and reports from ACCSH meetings. It is not all inclusive. For the most recent or a more comprehensive list go to http://www.osha.gov/doc/accsh. The following are links to all of the items in this collection: ACCSH 1988-1, exh 1, Fatality/Catastrophe Investigation Final Report ACCSH 1994-5, exh 15, Hexavalent Chromium Recommendations ACCSH 1994-2, exh 3, Standards Clarification Report ACCSH 1994-4, exh 8, Engineering Work Group Final Report ACCSH 1994-5, exh 1, Record Keeping Work Group Report and Recommendation ACCSH 1995-2, exh 11C, Steel Erection Negotiated Rulemaking Advisory Committee (SENRAC) ACCSH 1995-2, exh 13, Powered Industrial Trucks ACCSH 1995 -1, exh 18, Musculoskeletal Disorders Working Group Report ACCSH 1996-1, exh 5, Musculoskeletal Disorders Recommendations ACCSH 1996-2, exh 13&14, Safety and Health Programs Report and Final Draft ACCSH 1995-2, exh 15, Musculoskeletal Disorders in Construction ACCSH 1980-4, exh 1, Health Standards in Construction - Final Report ACCSH 1993-5, exh 8, Fall Protection ACCSH 1995-1, exh 10, Health and Safety of Women in Construction (HASWIC) Final Report ACCSH 1994-5, Exh 16, Hazwoper Working Group Recommendations ACCSH 1998-3, exh 16, Proposed Appendix B to Subpart L, Scaffolding ACCSH 2001-1, exh 7, Proposed Revised Sanitation Standard ACCSH Safety and Health Program Workgroup report and recommendations for OSHA concerning appropriate elements for a comprehensive program standard. Part of a collection. Click on the 'collection' button to access the other items. eLCOSH Editor's note: The OSHA Advisory Committee for Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH) was authorized in the 1969 Construction Safety Act (US Code Title 40§3704, to advise OSHA on matters related to construction safety and health. It consists of five public representatives (one is normally from a State OSHA program, one from NIOSH, etc.), five labor representatives (normally from various Building Trades Unions) and five management representatives (primarily from contractor trade associations). The ACCSH often sets up work groups, which are open to the public, to draft positions on various topics or issues. These positions are then often voted on by the full ACCSH and those recommendations referred to OSHA for their consideration. These work products represent a lot of effort and thought by many individuals. They are posted here to make that work more easily accessible. This historical archive many serve as a resource to future regulators and safety advocates, so they don’t have to start from scratch. OSHA has removed some of these documents from their website which makes access difficult. To the best of our knowledge this is a complete archive of ACCSH working group reports and recommendations. If you are aware of others, please contact us. For the most recent or future meetings, you can find information at http://www.osha.gov/doc/accsh . TO: ACCSH FROM: John B. Moran, Chair Safety and Health Programs Work Group. SUBJECT: Work Group Report/Recommendations. The Work Group met on the afternoon of 8 December 1994 to consider the scope of the Work Group activities in support of the Safety and Health Program subject. Members Paul, Osario, Rhoten and Moran were present. At the initial meeting of this ACCSH Committee, during which this Work Group was established, it was established that the Work Group would include in its scope several discrete elements which compromise a "Construction Safety and Health Program". Such elements include: PPE, Respirator Standards (1910.134), Medical Surveillance, Exposure Monitoring, and additional Program elements pertinent to the comprehensive Safety and Health Program appropriate to the employer engaged in construction. OSSA has promulgated revised standards for PPE applicable to General Industry. Those standards are not applicable to construction, however. The previous ACCSH Committee, in recognition of the importance of the PPE standard to construction, established a PPE Work Group during its last Committee meeting. No action was taken by that Work Group owing to the prompt appointment of the new, current, Committee. PPE remains an essential matter to the construction industry. OSHA recently published a proposed revision to the respirator standards at 29 CFR 1910.134. These revisions were originally published as a notice of proposed rulemaking in the early 80's. The respirator standards at 1910.134 have applied to construction in the past and it is assumed that the proposed rule would likewise be applicable to construction. The proposed rule, however, has not been put before ACCSH. As respiratory protection is an element of a Safety and Health Program, the Work Group considers the proposed respirator standard to be within its purview. Safety and Health Programs include a number of additional basic elements including Medical Surveillance, Exposure Monitoring and Recordkeeping. Recordkeeping is the subject of pending proposed rulemaking and has been a focus of a Work Group on the current Committee and the previous Committee. Medical Surveillance and Exposure Monitoring, however, are considered to "building block" standards which are in various stages of preparation as proposed rules within OSHA. It is the view of the Work Group that all of these elements are germane to the "Program" matter and should be considered by the Work Group. Owing to the complexity of this matter and the various stages in which elements of the "Program" matter reside, it the recommendation of the Work Group that: 1. The Work Group requests that OSHA provide the Work Group with copies of the PPE standard, the proposed Respirator Standard, and current drafts of the Medical Surveillance and Exposure Monitoring proposals. 2. That the Work Group hold a full day meeting to fully review the above materials and chart a comprehensive scope of work to address this complex matter. 3. That the Work Group prepare and submit a report to the Committee at the next meeting recommending a scope of work and action plan for the Work Group. Safety & Health Program An Effective Respiratory Program Guides for Managing Lead Control Programs in Construction	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line550
__label__wiki	0.971203	0.971203	Ned Glass to Jane Greenwood Gerrit Graham Biography (1949-) Born November 27, 1949, in New York, NY. Actor, writer Lloyd Clay, Greetings, Sigma III Corp., 1968 Gerrit Wood, Hi, Mom! (also known as Blue Manhattan, Confessions of a Peeping John, and Son of Greetings), Sigma III Corp., 1970 Joe (ape-suited party guest), Beware! The Blob (also known as Beware of the Blob, Son of Blob, and Son of the Blob), JackH. Harris Enterprises, 1972 Beef, Phantom of the Paradise (also known as Phantom and Phantom of the Fillmore), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974 Perman Waters, Cannonball (also known as Carquake), New World Pictures, 1976 Swivot, Special Delivery (also known as Dangerous Break), American International Pictures, 1976 Freddie, Tunnel Vision (also known as Tunnelvision), MediaHome Entertainment, 1976 Magic Ray, Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, American International Pictures, 1976 Walter Gabler, Demon Seed (also known as Proteus Generation), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1977 Highpockets, Pretty Baby, Paramount, 1978 Sam the Fisherman, Old Boyfriends, AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1979 James Byrd, Home Movies (also known as The Maestro), UnitedArtists Classics, 1979 Jeff, Used Cars, Columbia, 1980 Rodzinski, The Creature That Wasn't Nice (also known as Naked Space and Spaceship), Almi Pictures, 1981 Brian, Soup for One, Warner Bros., 1982 Bob Spinnaker, Class Reunion (also known as National Lampoon'sClass Reunion), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1982 Jeremy, New Magic, 1983 (In archive footage) Beef, "The Phantom of the Paradise," Terror in the Aisles (also known as Time for Terror), Universal, 1984 Carson, The Man with One Red Shoe, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1985 Ray Track, The Annihilators (also known as Action Force), New World Pictures, 1985 Technician Nessler, Chopping Mall (also known as Killbots),Concorde, 1986 Band of the Hand, TriStar, 1986 Billy Morrison, Ratboy, Warner Bros., 1986 Stanley Putterman, TerrorVision, Empire Pictures, 1986 Curt, Last Resort (also known as She Knew No Other Way), Concorde, 1986 Ralston, It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (also known as Island of the Alive), Warner Bros., 1987 Norvell Walker, Walker, Universal, 1987 Ace, Police Academy 6: City under Siege, Warner Bros., 1989 Title role, C.H.U.D. II--Bud the Chud, Vestron Pictures, 1989 Stanley Hoyle, Big Man on Campus (also known as The Hunchback Hairball of L.A.), Vestron Video, 1989 Stan Garrett, Martians Go Home, Taurus Entertainment, 1990 Phil Simpson, Child's Play 2, MCA/Universal, 1990 (As Bud T. Chud) Lieutenant France, Night of the Cyclone (also known as Perfume of the Cyclone), 1990 Lewis Crandall, Frozen Assets, RKO Pictures, 1992 Mapes, Sidekicks, Triumph Releasing Corp., 1992 Mr. Howard, This Boy's Life, Warner Bros., 1993 Dr. William Mailer/Friedrich Mahler, Philadelphia Experiment II, Trimark Pictures, 1993 Dr. Sam Helburn, My Girl 2, Columbia, 1994 Circle of Fate, Round Rock Productions, 1994 Bill Cowens, The Break, Trimark Pictures, 1995 Bloom, Magic in the Mirror: Fowl Play, 1996 Mr. Vogel, Demolition High, New City Releasing, 1996 Voice, Bruno the Kid: The Animated Movie (animated), 1996 Oliver Most, One True Thing, MCA/Universal, 1998 Additional voices, The Little Mermaid (animated), Buena Vista, 1989 Leonard, Stockard Channing in Just Friends, CBS, 1979 Dr. Pankow, Parker Lewis Can't Lose (also known as Parker Lewis), Fox, 1990-1991 Voice of Cat R. Waul, Fievel's American Tails (animated), CBS, 1991 Voice of Franklin Sherman, The Critic (animated), ABC, 1994, thenFox, 1995 Roger Bender, Now and Again, CBS, 1999 Earl Gates, Strange Homecoming, NBC, 1974 Calvin McCoy, The Hatfields and the McCoys, ABC, 1975 Daniel, Strange New World, ABC, 1975 Curley, Black Bart, 1975 Carver Blackwood, Dynasty (also known as The Americans andJames A. Michener's Dynasty), NBC, 1976 Parker Braithwaite, The Ratings Game (also known as The Mogul), TMC, 1984 Charlie, Tonight's the Night (also known as The Game of Love), ABC, 1987 Phillips, Love Matters, Showtime, 1993 Lipsky, Shake, Rattle, and Rock!, Showtime, 1994 Mark, Sr., Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare, ABC, 1995 Satan, Favorite Deadly Sins (also known as National Lampoon's Deadly Sins), Showtime, 1995 (As Gerritt Graham) Arthur, The Wasp Woman (also known as Forbidden Beauty and Roger Corman Presents The Wasp Woman), Sci-Fi Channel, 1995 Warren Whitcomb, The Love Letter, CBS, 1998 Dr. Vinton, Street Killing, ABC, 1976 Mike Stevenson, Gang of Four, ABC, 1989 Jordan Detweller, Camp California, ABC, 1989 "Prelude to Vengeance," The Rookies, ABC, 1974 Charles Dillon, "Accounts Balanced," Harry O, ABC, 1974 "The Right to Die," Medical Story, NBC, 1975 "The Five and a Half Pound Junkie," Baretta, 1975 Nickolas John Manning, "Nightmare," Starsky and Hutch, ABC, 1976 "A Duck Is a Duck," Dog and Cat, ABC, 1977 Cliff Yancy, "The Mad Mad Bomber: Parts 1 & 2," Future Cop, 1977 Nathan, "The Dance Studio," Laverne & Shirley, ABC, 1978 Brother Stephen, "Children of Jamestown," The A-Team, NBC, 1983 Jerry Singer, "Watch Out!," Whiz Kids, CBS, 1984 Griffin St. George, "Welcome to Winfield," The Twilight Zone, CBS,1986 Phil Krawcheck, "Greg Belts," Sidekicks, ABC, 1986 "Cold War," St. Elsewhere, NBC, 1987 Phil Krawcheck, "Kicked Upstairs," Sidekicks, ABC, 1987 Calvin Teal, "The Cows of October," Miami Vice, NBC, 1988 Calvin Teal, "Vote of Confidence," Miami Vice, NBC, 1988 "The Family in Question," My Two Dads, 1988 Fred Hughes, "The Call of the Wild," Dallas, 1988 Fred Hughes, "Road Work," Dallas, 1988 Fred Hughes, "War and Love and the Whole Damned Thing," Dallas, 1988 Fred Hughes, "Showdown at the Ewing Corral," Dallas, 1988 Fred Hughes, "Deception," Dallas, 1989 Fred Hughes, "Counter Attack," Dallas, 1989 Theodore Carne, "The Man Who Was Death," Tales from the Crypt, HBO, 1989 J. D. Marcus, "Ten-Cent Hero," The Young Riders, ABC, 1989 Captain Soubra, "The Gift," China Beach, ABC, 1990 "My Dad Can Beat Up Your BMW," Parenthood, 1990 Dr. Tucker, "Courage," The Wonder Years, ABC, 1991 "Pure Gold," Reasonable Doubts, NBC, 1991 Henry Krum, "Bedroom at the Top," A Different World, NBC, 1992 "Below the Beltway," Civil Wars, ABC, 1992 Landlord, "The Oddest Couple," Family Matters, ABC, 1992 The hunter, "Captive Pursuit," Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, syndicated, 1993 Tommy Fender, "In a Safe Place," Moon over Miami, ABC, 1993 Lord Kiro, "Signs and Portents," Babylon 5, syndicated, 1994 Joseph Boland, "My Four Husbands," Diagnosis Murder, CBS, 1994 Munch, "The Eyes Have It," Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, ABC, 1995 Kevin, "0.409," The Larry Sanders Show, HBO, 1995 Voice of Tom, "Avalon: Parts 1, 2, & 3," Gargoyles, syndicated, 1995 Dr. Victor Frankenstein, "Searching for Boris Karloff," Weird Science, USA Network, 1996 Voice of guardian, "Ill Met by Moonlight," Gargoyles, syndicated,1996 Quinn, "Death Wish," Star Trek: Voyager, UPN, 1996 Alan Bruder, "Tabloid," Law & Order, NBC, 1998 Also appeared as Mr. Wacky, "Mr. Wacky's World," Fame, syndicated;voices of guard and Milo, "16," The Tick (animated); Gary, Dear John; Cliff Buttram, Sugar and Spice; Dr. Gus Rivers, Stat; Billy Burrows, Likely Suspects; in Sweet Justice. Television Work Researcher, Pop-Up Video, 1996 Lucky Eric, Bouncers, Minetta Lane Theatre, New York City, 1987 Communicating Doors, Variety Arts Theatre, New York City, 1998-1999 Also appeared in Sill & Co., off-Broadway production; My Good Name, Sag Harbor; Comedians, Blade to the Heat, Mizlansky/Zilinsky, Steambath, and Chicago, all Los Angeles productions. Film Writing Additional story material, Oliver & Company, Buena Vista, 1988 Additional dialogue and liner notes, The Little Mermaid (animated), Buena Vista, 1989 Animation screenplay, The Prince & The Pauper (animated), Buena Vista, 1990 Television Episodes (With Chris Hubbell) "Opening Day," Twilight Zone, 1985 (With Hubbell) "Still Life," Twilight Zone, 1986 Wrote Grateful Dead's "Victim or the Crime."	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line559
__label__wiki	0.934474	0.934474	Kim Deal preps solo releases; Breeders reissue on ... Kraftwerk's Karl Bartos new LP Off The Record Johnny Marr - BBC Legends Week interview Happy Birthday, Matt Cameron! Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit on BBC DarkDriveClinic covers R.E.M. + Depeche Mode Video: Watch Peter Hook discuss classic Joy Divisi... The Ocean Blue - Korda Kompilation Happy Mondays - Shaun Ryder hunts for UFOs! Gary Numan - "We're The Unforgiven" Midge Ure - North American tour Quicksand - North American tour New Order's Bernard Sumner + Stephen Morris new in... Soundgarden - Jimmy Kimmel Live Morrissey adds new date, Johnny Marr's Jaguar wins... Pearl Jam - Instore performances, 1991 The Verve - History Mark Lanegan - Dark Mark Does Christmas 2012 Scared To Get Happy - A Story Of Indie Pop 1980 - ... The Dark Flowers - Peter Murphy & Jim Kerr side pr... Parlour Flames - New songs streaming KMFDM - Song premiere - Kunst Joy Division - Free Download - 1980 University of ... The Clarke & Ware Experiment - podcast Officers X Gary Numan - Second "Petals" video unle... The Ocean Blue - Korda Kompilation + live dates The Smiths/Morrissey + Joy Division postcard set The Jam celebrates 30th anniversary of The Gift + ... A Charlie Brown Christmas + Thanksgiving Mazzy Star - Bridge School Benefit Andy Rourke digs Johnny Marr's new single Adam Ant - Cool Zombie video preview KMFDM - Kunst Dinosaur Jr - Chocomel Daze Johnny Marr to join Pet Shop Boys on stage Martin Gore + Depeche Mode: Live + acoustic Bob Mould - A Celebration of the Music & Legacy of... Noel Gallagher on Oasis reunion: If I'm Ever Skint... Damon Albarn - Radio Reunited + Blur's Parklive The Smiths - Strangeways documentary + new biograp... Trent Reznor on Year Zero, The Fragile, QOTSA + mo... Johnny Marr - The Messenger Ian Brown - Collected + Glastonbury 2005 Madchester Guitar - Ebay Auction Morrissey - rescheduled dates Ned's Atomic Dustbin + Carter The Unstoppable Sex ... Trent Reznor - Call Of Duty Black Ops II Elvis Costello - In Motion Pictures Soundgarden - King Animal Soundgarden - Shepherd's Bush Empire, London Noel Gallagher - Idler's Dream Soundgarden - North American tour Joy Division - Warsaw New Order - Lost Sirens Wonderstuff - Oh No...It's The Wonderstuff The Clarke & Ware Experiment - House of Illustriou... Soundgarden - Dortmond, Germany Nine Inch Nails - New material in the works! Adam Ant - Cool Zombie video Officers X Gary Numan - Petals My Bloody Valentine - New album by year's end Soundgarden - Later...With Jools Holland Bryan Ferry - The Jazz Age Soundgarden - King Animal full album stream Paul Weller - Abbey Road Studios session Noel Gallagher on Oasis + live at the Horseshoe Bob Mould - Fun Fun Fun Fest + live in L.A. Stone Roses - First live TV appearance Madness - Oui Oui television appearances Morrissey - North American tour to resume in Janua... Adam Ant - New single "Cool Zombie" live in Glasgo... Peter Murphy - Halloween show in San Diego Adam Ant - Cool Zombie video shoot drama Peter Buck - Peter Buck solo album The Madchester Guitar - Charity auction Kim Deal preps solo releases; Breeders reissue on the way Kim Deal is releasing the first in a series of self-released 7" singles this weekend to coincide with her solo gig at All Tomorrow's Parties' Nightmare Before Christmas in Camber Sands Holiday Park, England. Deal's single, "Walking With A Killer" b/w "Dirty Hessian" will be available to purchase this weekend exclusively at the concert, as it appears Deal does not have an official website yet. She is planning to self-release more material in the future (she's recorded demos of songs with a full band as well as some acoustic material) and is currently mulling over how exactly to release the material (singles vs ep vs album, etc.) So new solo music is on the way, stay tuned! Kim Deal revealed in a new interview with Wears The Trousers that the Breeders' classic album Last Splash will be reissued next year as part of the album's 20th anniversary. The band and label 4AD are currently going through old material and organizing the anniversary release. Deal revealed the reissue will include demos, and b-sides, and may also feature the band's rare 1992 Safari EP (featured Kelley Deal and Tanya Donelly as part of the lineup). The Breeders are also rehearsing for an anniversary tour! Read the newsy and exlcusive two part interview with Kim Deal at Wears The Trousers: Part 1 & Part 2 Meanwhile Kelley Deal formed a project with Ampline guitarist Mike Montgomery and released their debut single "Fallout & Fire" last month. Stream the track below and catch up with R. Ring here. Karl Bartos, ex-member of electro-pioneers Kraftwerk (part of Kraftwerk's classic lineup) has announced the follow up to his 2003 album Communication. Bartos' new album Off The Record features 12 tracks that were taken from song ideas he wrote during Kraftwerk's heyday (he kept a secret acoustic diary and jotted down ideas while on the road). The album drops March 15th, but you can enjoy a first taste of music from Off The Record - listen to a sample of the album's first track "Atomium" below: The full tracklisting for Off The Record is posted below. For more on Karl Bartos visit his official website. 01. Atomium 02. Nachtfahrt 03. International Velvet 04. Without A Trace Of Emotion 05. The Binary Code 06. Musica Ex Machina 07. The Tuning Of The World 08. Instant Bayreuth 09. Vox Humana 10. Rhythmus 11. Silence 12. Hausmusik Kraftwerk are one of the nominees for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of 2013. The inductees will be announced in early December and this year is the first time fans can take part in the voting process. Vote for Kraftwerk (or any of the eligible nominees) here through December 3rd. The induction ceremony takes place at the Nokia Theater on April 18th. Johnny Marr debuted his new single and video for "The Messenger" on November 13th as part of the BBC's Legends Week. Marr's Radio 6 interview was previously unavailable to stream worldwide, but it has now appeared on You Tube. Take a listen to the full interview with BBC Radio 6's Sean Keaveny below - the interview begins with a story about how Marr's brother Ian introduced him to Noel Gallagher (and he received an early Oasis demo). Other topics included some of Marr's favorite albums, why he's doing a solo album after all these years, his post-Smiths' relationship with Morrissey, and falling into great company like Matt Johnson, Bernard Sumner, and Chrissie Hynde after the Smiths' breakup. Johnny Marr is currently in New York and will appear onstage with Dinosaur Jr for the 25th anniversary of You're Living All Over Me, then heads back to Manchester for a gig with the Pet Shop Boys. Marr is expected to announce dates for his solo tour soon. Marr's solo album The Messenger drops February 26th. Johnny Marr "The Messenger" Happy Birthday to super-drummer Matt Cameron who manages to share his massive drumming talents with both Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. Watch some video of the man in action! With Pearl Jam With Soundgarden On this day in 1991, Nirvana performed their hit song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on the BBC program Top Of The Pops. The show routinely featured big name acts lip-synching to their hits, but as you would expect, Kurt Cobain was not interested in miming along to a pre-recorded backing track. Instead, Kurt polished up his crooning skills and delivered an amazingly entertaining performance. Top Of The Pops producers were annoyed by the version and asked Nirvana to re-record it, but the band declined and the hysterical version ended up airing. The performance was included on the Nirvana collection Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! and was later named the third best live TOTP performance in history by The Guardian. Enjoy it below courtesy of Requiem20101 & ThatEricAlper. Legendary producer John Fryer (Depeche Mode, Yaz, Fad Gadget, Wire, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, and tons more) teamed up with vocalist Rebecca Coseboom for the new project DarkDriveClinic. The duo recorded a cover of R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" and Depeche Mode's "Walking In My Shoes" for their ep DarkDriveClinic the covers. Stream the Garbagesque three song ep below and purchase it as a name-your-own-price download on bandcamp. Two other releases from DarkDriveClinic, The Kissing Hands and Noise In My Head, were released earlier this year and are also available on bandcamp. Via Sideline. "DarkDriveClinic" the covers by DarkDriveClinic Video: Watch Peter Hook discuss classic Joy Division songs NME captured Peter Hook discussing classic Joy Division songs for the ongoing series Song Stories. Watch the video below, plus if you haven't already, click the links below the video to download free remastered versions of Joy Division recordings. The remasters have been pulled, downloads are no longer available. : Download: free remaster of Joy Division concert recorded in 1980 in London Download: free remaster of Joy Division's legendary Warsaw sessions As reported previously, the Ocean Blue return with their first new album in 10 years on January 15th, and today two brand new songs have been released! The two tracks "Blow My Mind," and "A Rose Is A Rose," are part of the eight song Korda Records sampler. The Korda Kompilation is available to purchase on cd for only five dollars, and a digital version is available through bandcamp. Stream the full compilation below (Ocean Blue tracks are #2 "Blow My Mind" and #8 "A Rose Is A Rose"). Korda Kompilation by Korda Artists So far the Ocean Blue have announced two live shows - January 12th in Minneapolis at First Avenue and January 13th at Schuba's in Chicago. More dates are expected to be announced next year. For more on the Ocean Blue visit them on Facebook and Twitter. Last year news surfaced about Shaun Ryder's involvement in a new program titled Shaun Ryder on UFOs. The series, which airs on History next year, follows Ryder around the globe searching for UFOs, exploring the history of UFO sightings, and sorting out fact from fiction. According to a new interview with NME, Ryder has been interested in UFOs since childhood and was interested in participating in the show to help give UFOlogists somewhat of a better image: "The thing is, right, a lot of UFOlogists, are fucking up it mate, they’re fucking proper, proper up it, and they give it a bad name," says Ryder. "You know, some are not UFOlogists, just fucking raving bonkers, you know, they’re just absolute knobheads. Then you’ve got some that are really smart and intellectual, and you’ve got real scientists as well." Shaun Ryder on UFOs premieres on History in the U.K. in 2013 (premiere date TBA) and we HOPE this manages to get picked up in America. PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN! Read more about the program over at History. “I’m delighted to be making this series! Once they see you, they keep an eye on you…” Shaun Ryder Happy Mondays "Step On" (alternate video) Gary Numan posted a snippet of a new song called "We're The Unforgiven." The track, which Numan calls a "work in progress," is streaming below: Gary Numan kicks off his U.K. tour in support of his 11 track remix album, Dead Moon Falling, this weekend. The album will be available to purchase at live shows and will likely be available through his official website later next month. Dead Moon Falling features a new track titled "For You" plus "Petals," Numan's collaboration with Officers. Last week Numan released the second of two videos for "Petals" which you can watch here. The digital ep for Petals was released on iTunes and Amazon November 19th. Midge Ure has added more dates to his previously announced North American tour. Tickets for most of the shows are on sale now! 1/08 - Long Island, NY @ Sagamore Yacht Club 1/09 - Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe 1/11 - Stafford Springs, CT @ Palace Theater 1/12 - Woodstock, NY @ Bearsville Theater 1/13 - Rochester, NY @ Water Street 1/14 - Toronto, ON @ Hugh's Room 1/16 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom 1/17 - Ferndale, MI @ Magic Bag 1/18 - Milwaukee, WI @ Shank Hall 1/19 - Chicago, IL @ Mayne Stage 1/20 - Minneapolis, MN @ The Belmore/New Skyway Lounge 1/23 - San Francisco, CA @ Red Devil Lounge 1/24 - San Jose Capistrano, CA @ Coach House 1/25 - San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick 1/26 - Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theater Let's hope fans will be on their best behavior and no pies are thrown at the gigs, unlike the unfortunate event that took place Ultravox's London gig earlier this year. Quicksand reunited earlier this year for the Revelation Records 25th anniversary and a few one-off shows. Today Quicksand announced dates for a tour of North America, which includes a stop at St. Andrew's Hall on January 11th. The internet pre-sale for most of the dates (including the Detroit show) kick off Thursday, November 29th at 10am and the general onsale starts Friday, November 30th at 10am. More details on the Detroit show are posted here. The full tour Quicksand tour itinerary is posted below. 1/07 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club 1/08 - Montreal, QC @ Corona Theater 1/09 - Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theater 1/11 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew's Hall 1/12 - Chicago, IL @ Metro 1/13 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue 1/17 - Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom 1/18 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox 1/19 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom 1/21 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom 1/22 - Hollywood, CA @ Fonda Theater 1/25 - San Diego, CA @ House Of Blues 1/28 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer 1/29 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat 1/30 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall Watch Quicksand's full set captured June 10th at the Revelation Records' 25th anniversary show in Pomona, California: New Order's Bernard Sumner + Stephen Morris new interview Consequence of Sound published a new interview with New Order's Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris today. Props to COS and interviewer Michael Roffman - the subject of Peter Hook was never broached (or if it did, it wasn't included in the feature). Instead the interview touched on New Order's recent tour, setlist, writing new songs, the Olympics, and Manchester. Sumner revealed Chicago reminds him of home, and made the following comments on the "industrial grime" of Manchester: "When we were in Joy Division and making those records, everything was industrial grime and smashed windows and disused factories, red brick buildings...We used to light a fire of garbage just to keep us warm in the winter, it was that cold. And, it was kind of all this Victorian era decay and industrial decay and grime...It was good for our music because your environment does shape your music to a certain extent. Manchester gave us Joy Division and L.A. gave us the Beach Boys, for example." Sumner also confirmed the band will likely go back to a more electronic sound for the next New Order record, though they're all about just writing good songs whether they're guitar based or electronic: "...what I’ve come to realize, really, is just write a good song. Stop trying to reinvent the wheel. You can’t, you know? Levi’s never managed this; reinventing jeans did they? They came up with a great idea straight away." Read the full interview with Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris over at Consequence Of Sound. As previously reported, New Order's long-delayed outtakes album Lost Sirens will finally be released in January. The album (which will be released as a cd/vinyl combo release) is listed on Amazon UK and is available to pre-order as an import on Amazon in North America. Tracklisting is posted below: 01. I'll Stay With You 02. Sugarcane 03. Recoil 04. Californian Grass 05. Hellbent* 06. Shake It Up 07. I've Got A Feeling 08. I Told You So** Original non-radio edit (different from version on Total) Previously unreleased mix "Hellbent" (version from Total) Soundgarden play Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight! To get you amped for the performance, take a look at Soundgarden's recent tv gigs below: "Been Away Too Long" "Taree" Chris Cornell interview + "Rusty Cage" - Later With Jools Holland "Been Away Too Long" - Letterman Full Live On Letterman webcast Morrissey adds new date, Johnny Marr's Jaguar wins guitar award + more Morrissey announced an additional date for his rescheduled North American tour in New Jersey - the new date is January 15th at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey. Tickets go on sale Friday, November 30th. Morrissey resumes his world tour next month with a handful of dates in Australia and New Zealand. The itinerary for the full world tour is posted below. 12/14 Wellington, New Zealand @ Town Hall 12/15 Auckland, New Zealand @ Vector Arena 12/17 Brisbane, Australia @ Convention Center 12/19 Melbourne, Australia @ Festival Hall 12/21 Sydney, Australia @ Enmore Theatre 12/22 Sydney, Australia @ Sydney Opera House 1/09 Greenvale, Long Island, NY @ Tilles Center for the Performing Arts 1/11 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Academy of Music 1/12 Atlantic City, NJ @ House of Blues Atlantic City 1/15 Red Bank, NJ @ Count Basie Theater 1/16 North Bethesda, MD @ Strathmore 1/18 Reading, PA @ Sovereign Performing Arts Center 1/19 Port Chester, NY @ Capitol Theatre 1/21 Pittsburgh, PA @ Heinz Hall 1/22 Columbus. OH @ LC Indoor Pavilion 1/24 Flint, MI @ Whiting Auditorium 1/25 Minneapolis, MN @ Orpheum Theater 1/26 Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theater 1/28 Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel 1/29 Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium 1/31 Atlanta, GA @ Cobb Energy Center for the Performing Arts 2/02 Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall 2/05 Clear Lake, IA @ Surf Ballroom 2/06 Lincoln, NE @ Rococo Theatre 2/09 Las Vegas, NV @ The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas 2/10 Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theatre 2/12 El Paso, TX @ Tricky Falls 2/13 Austin, TX @ Austin Music Hall 2/15 Pharr, TX @ Pharr Events Center 2/16 Beaumont, TX @ Jefferson Theater 2/18 Dallas, TX @ Palladium 2/21 Denver, CO @ Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre 2/22 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kingsbury Hall 2/24 San Francisco, CA @ Davies Symphony Hall 3/01 Los Angeles, CA @ Staples Center (with Patti Smith) 3/02 Sparks, NV @ John Ascuaga's Nugget - Rose Ballroom 3/04 Davis, CA @ Robert Mondavi Center at UC Davis 3/06 Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre 3/08 Portland, OR @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Meanwhile, Johnny Marr's Jaguar Fender was voted 'Electric Guitar Of The Year' at the Music Industries Association Music Awards. Take a look at the award here. Marr is preparing to play a couple of shows in early December - he'll join Dinosaur Jr on stage December 1st at Terminal 5 in NYC, then he'll join the Pet Shop Boys on stage December 6th in Salford, U.K. Marr's debut solo record The Messenger drops February 26th. The video for the title track is posted below: NME recently created a video on the story behind the Smiths' classic "How Soon Is Now?" which you can enjoy below: In the fall of 1991 Pearl Jam were on the road opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers - a pretty prime gig at the time for the virtually unknown band (the Smashing Pumpkins, who also just released their debut album Gish were also on the bill). While on tour, Pearl Jam played a handful of acoustic gigs at record stores, and footage from a couple of the in-stores have appeared online! Roll back in time and enjoy some amazing video of Pearl Jam ripping it up below: "Wash" (Tower Records, Maryland) "Black" (Tower Records, Maryland) "Alive" (Tower Records, Maryland) "Porch" (Tower Records, Maryland) "Black" (Yonkers, New York) "Wash" (Yonkers, New York) The Verve's epic song "History" was released on the band's 1995 full length A Northern Soul. "History" was also released as two separate maxi-singles - History ep I and History ep 2. Both are worth picking up if you're a fan - the extra tracks are amazing. Save yourself some money and order from Amazon UK, because Amazon US is only offering the eps through subsellers who are charging major bucks. The maxi-singles are also worth having for the awesome cover art - the picture (featuring the band underneath the marquee "all farewells should be sudden") was taken before the band announced their (first) sudden split. History ep I 01. History (edit) 02. Back On My Feet Again 03. On Your Own (acoustic) 04. Monkey Magic History ep 2 01. History (album version) 02. Grey Skies 03. Life's Not A Rehearsal "History" (official video) "History" (non-official video) Mark Lanegan recorded a six song Christmas ep Dark Mark Does Christmas 2012 and is selling the limited edition ep exclusively at his live shows. Lanegan is currently overseas and won't be playing any shows in North America over the coming weeks, so the closest you'll likely get to the ep is via the stream posted below (so far copies of the ep haven't appeared on Ebay). Stream individual tracks and/or the full ep below: "We Three Kings" "O Holy Night" Full ep 01. The Cherry Tree Carol 02. Down In Yon Forest 03. O Holy Night 04. We Three Kings 05. Coventry Carol 06. Burn The Flames (Roky Erickson cover) Scared To Get Happy - A Story Of Indie Pop 1980 - 1989 A 4 CD set featuring U.K. indie guitar pop gems from the 1980s is expected to be released in 2013. Scared To Get Happy - A Story Of Indie Pop 1980-1989 compiles hard to find nuggets from both obscure and well known artists from the era. So far the tracklisting isn't fully firmed up, but the organizers indicate most of the songs listed below are expected to be included. If you're a fan of 1980s indie UK music just glancing at the list of bands below will likely bring a VERY big smile to your face (Felt! Milltown Brothers! Sun & The Moon! Close Lobsters! House Of Love!, wow it's ALL so goood!) Scared To Get Happy - A Story Of Indie Pop 1980 - 1989 is expected to arrive in the spring on Cherry Red. For more on Scared To Get Happy, visit the official page on Facebook. Mighty Lemon Drops "Something Happens" 14 Iced Bears - Balloon Song Another Sunny Day - I’m In love With A Girl Who Doesn’t Know… Apple Boutique - Love Resistance Bachelor Pad - The Albums Of Jack Biff Bang Pow! - The Chocolate Elephant Man Black - Human Features Blow Up - Forever Holiday Blue Orchids - Work Bluebells - TBA BMX Bandits - Sad Bodines - God Bless Boy Hairdressers - Tidalwave Bradford - Skin Storm Brilliant Corners - Delilah Sands Bubblegum Splash - One Of Those Things Charlottes - Are You Happy Now? Cherry Boys - Kardomah Café Chesterfields - Completely And Utterly Claim - Picking Up The Bitter Little Pieces Close Lobsters - What Is There To Smile About (Demo) Clouds - Tranquil Corn Dollies - Be Small Again (or Forever Steven) Cud - Only (A Prawn In Whitby) Daintees - Roll On Summertime Darling Buds - Shame On You Dentists - She Dazzled Me With Basil Desert Wolves - Speak To Me Rochelle Dolly Mixture - Everything And More East Village - Strawberry Window Everything But The Girl - Feeling Dizzy Fanatics - Suburban Love Songs Fantastic Something - If She Doesn’t Smile It’ll Rain Farmers Boys - I Think I Need Help Felt - TBA Field Mice - Emma’s House Fire Engines - Candy Skin Flatmates - Shimmer Friends Again - Honey At The Core Girls At Our Best - Getting Nowhere Fast Gol Gappas - Albert Parker Golden Dawn - My Secret World Grab Grab The Haddock - I'm Used Now Groove Farm - Surfin’ Into Your Heart Groovy Little Numbers - You Make My Head Explode Hangman's Beautiful Daughters - Love Is Blue Heart Throbs - Toy Hepburns - The World Is House Of Love - The Hill Hurrah - The Sun Shines Here Inspiral Carpets - Keep The Circle Around Jamie Wednesday - Vote For Love Jane - It’s A Fine Day Jasmine Minks - Where The Traffic Goes Jazz Butcher - Southern Mark Smith Josef K - The Missionary June Brides - Just The Same King Of Luxembourg - A Picture Of Dorian Gray Korova Milk Bar - Do It Again La's - Son Of A Gun (Demo) Laugh - Take Your Time Yeah! Lines - Nerve Pylon Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken (Indie Vsn) Loft - Up The Hill And Down The Slope Marine Girls - Don’t Come Back McCarthy - Red Sleeping Beauty McTells - Jesse Man Rae Microdisney - Dolly Mighty Lemon Drops - Something Happens Mighty Mighty - Is There Anyone Out There? Milltown Brothers - Roses Monochrome Set - Jet Set Junta Nightingales - Paraffin Brain or The Crunch Orchids - I’ve Got A Habit Pastels - I Wonder Why Pooh Sticks - Indiepop Ain’t Noise Pollution Pop Will Eat Itself - Sweet Sweet Pie Popguns - Landslide Poppyheads - Pictures You Weave Prefab Sprout - Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone) Pulp - Everybody’s Problem Raw Herbs - She’s A Nurse Razorcuts - Big Pink Cake Revolving Paint Dream - In The Afternoon Rodney Allen - Circle Line Rosehips - Room In Your Heart Rosemary's Children - Whatever Happened To) Alice? Rote Kapelle - Sunday Sea Urchins - Solace Servants - Transparent Shop Assistants - All Day Long Siddeleys - My Favourite Wet Wednesday Afternoon Slowdive - Beach Song Soup Dragons - Not For Humbert Strawberry Switchblade - Trees And Flowers Sun & The Moon - Adam’s Song Talulah Gosh - Beatnik Boy Telescopes - Perfect Needle This Poison - Engine Failure Trixie's Big Red Motorbike - Norman And Narcissus Vaselines - Jesus Don’t Want Me For A Sunbeam Waltones - She Looks Right Through Me Weather Prophets - Almost Prayed Weekend - Summerdays Whirl - Heaven Forbid Wolfhounds - Cut The Cake Wonder Stuff - It's A Wonderful Day Yeah Jazz - Sharon Yeah Yeah Noh - Temple Of Convenience The Dark Flowers - Peter Murphy & Jim Kerr side project The Dark Flowers - the new indie/electro/alt-country project featuring Peter Murphy, Jim Kerr, Dot Allison, Helicopter Girl, and others - are about to release their debut full length album Radioland. The album is scheduled for a January 21st release on lojinx and is available to pre-order now. Take a look at the track listing for Radioland plus stream their four song ep When Stars Fall below. The ep was released earlier this summer and is available to purchase here. For more on The Dark Flowers visit their page on Facebook. 01. Radioland (ft Jim Kerr) 02. All The Time Running (ft Shelly Pool & Charity Hair) 03. Blue Eyes Are Cheating (ft Jim Kerr) 04. Fast Forest Rain (ft Kate Havnevik) 05. Aim For The Heart (ft Catherine AD) 06. Candle Is The Ring (ft Helicopter Girl) 07. Clean Break (ft Peter Murphy) 08. Diamonds On The Snow (ft Dot Allison) 09. When Stars Fall (ft Shelly Pool) 10. Cellophane Girl (ft Shelly Pool) 11. No Trains Stop Here (ft Catherine AD) 12. Where The Wild Things Are (ft Jim Kerr) Parlour Flames is the new band formed by ex-Oasis guitarist Bonehead (aka Paul Arthurs) and songwriter/poet Vinny Peculiar. The two were introduced a few years back through Mike Joyce (Smiths drummer) and have played together previously - Bonehead played guitar on Vinny's 2011 solo album and joined him for live gigs in 2007. The band's debut album, Volume I, is scheduled to be released in February and features a mix of guitar pop (described by Parlour Flames as a "folk art rock record.") Take a listen to the album's first single, "Manchester Rain" below along with another song called "Pop Music Football & Girls." For more on Parlour Flames visit the official site, Facebook, or Twitter. Reminder: KMFDM premiere the new album Kunst today - the stream starts at 4pm ET over on the official KMFDM Facebook page. UPDATE (6 pm ET): KMFDM premiered the song "Kunst" (not the full album) earlier today. Stream "Kunst" below: Kunst (full album) drops February 26th on is available to pre-order on cd and limited edition vinyl. Don't miss KMFDM on tour in North America next March. Joy Division - Free Download - 1980 University of London Analog Loyalist, the sound engineer who lovingly remastered Joy Division's Warsaw sessions and recently made them available as a free FLAC download has put his magic to work again! This time Analog Loyalist (aka Drew Crumbaugh) took Joy Division's February 8, 1980 concert recorded at the University of London and refined the sound. The concert was previously released in 2007 as bonus content on the Closer reissue, but Crumbaugh was disappointed in the remaster, so he put his remastering skills to work. Crumbaugh's new and improved version (one he hopes will eventually be reissued by Rhino) is now available as a free FLAC download. Major props to Crumbaugh for his painstaking work on such an awesome project! Read more about the project here and download the free FLAC files here. (via Spin) Stream the 2007 version of the 1980 concert below. Stream two additional Joy Division concerts from 1980 - the first concert is audio from the February 29th gig at the Lyceum in London, and the second concert was recorded in Amsterdam on January 11th. Vince Clarke and Martyn Ware release a limited edition ten disc set of ambient music (two previously released albums, plus eight discs of previously unreleased material) called House of Illustrious on November 26th. Clarke and Ware recorded a podcast to explain more about how they met, how they record their music, and more about House of Illustrious. Take a listen to the podcast below (also available to download) and head over to their website to order the boxset. A collection of promo videos for House of Illustrious are posted here. Officers X Gary Numan - Second "Petals" video unleashed Gary Numan and Officers debuted the second of two short films for their collaborative track "Petals" (the first one premiered last week.) Both videos were created to promote "Petals" and to help raise awareness for the CALM (suicide prevention charity - Campaign Against Living Miserably). Take a look at the videos below - the first is the previously available censored cut, where you'll see Gary Numan writhing around, but you'll have to watch the second video (the extended cut) to understand what's really going on and making him squirm! "Petals" (video 1, censored cut) "Petals" (video 2, extended cut) The digital single for "Petals" is available now on iTunes and Amazon. The Ocean Blue return with a full length album in January and the first taste of new music is coming next week. Two new Ocean Blue songs appear on Korda Kompilation - an eight song sampler featuring songs from bands on Korda, the label Ocean Blue vocalist David Schelzel founded earlier in the year. Other bands on Korda Kompilation include The Starfolk, Jim Ruiz Set, and Typsy Panthre. Korda Kompilation arrives November 27th. Meanwhile, the Ocean Blue have also announced two live gigs - they're playing the Korda Records showcase January 12th in Minneapolis at First Avenue (tickets are on sale now), and January 13th they play Schuba's in Chicago (tickets on sale Friday). More live dates are expected to be announced in the coming weeks. Catch up with The Ocean Blue on Facebook and Twitter. "Between Something & Nothing" "Ballerina Out Of Control" "Sublime" (live on Conan O'Brien, 1993) A collection of 31 images of the Smiths and Morrissey are available to pre-order today. The photos were shot by famed music photographer Kevin Cummins, and come packaged in a hand finished box. The set ships from Manchester on December 7th but is highly recommended to pre-order now before the set sells out! Order through Polite now. A set of Joy Division images, also shot by Kevin Cummins, is being sold by Polite. The collection is sold out, but the site indicates more copies will be available soon. Watch a short video on Kevin Cummins and his Joy Division photos below. The video was shot a few years ago at a Joy Division exhibit in London. The Jam celebrates 30th anniversary of The Gift + Paul Weller BBC sessions A four disc boxset celebrating the Jam's 30th anniversary of their final album The Gift is out today! The set features the remastered version of the original album along with a disc of remastered demos/alternative tracks (including 13 previously unreleased songs), a live set recorded during the band's final tour in 1982, and a DVD with live performances. The Gift 30th anniversary set is available now in the U.K. and will be available (as an import) in North America on November 27th. Meanwhile, Paul Weller's Dragonfly ep will be released on limited edition vinyl and as a digital download on December 17th. The ep features lead track "Dragonfly" from Weller's full length album Sonik Kicks, along with five other tracks. The ep's artwork was designed by Sir Peter Blake who previously worked with Weller on the 1995 release Stanley Road. Pre-order here. Tonight the second half of Paul Weller's Maida Vale session recorded for the British program Mastertapes airs on the BBC. The "B-side" show will be available to stream on demand after it airs tonight, but for now enjoy a performance of a new song titled "Gravity" taken from the B-side Mastertapes session below. The first half of the session ("A-side") premiered last week and is available to stream here. Another Paul Weller session recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios is available to stream here. Unfortunately, the session is geo-blocked and unavailable to view outside of the U.K. however a couple of songs have appeared on You Tube and are posted below. "My Ever Changing Moods" (Abbey Road Sessions) "The Changingman" (Abbey Road Sessions) Paul Weller announced three U.K. stadium shows which take place next July. Details on the shows and ticket info posted here. A remastered and expanded version of the soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas by the Vince Guaraldi Trio is now available. The new version includes different mixes/alternate takes (for instance, the version of "Linus & Lucy" is the recording originally used in the film) and adds three previously unavailable songs - "Greensleeves," "Great Pumpkin Waltz," and "Thanksgiving Theme" - all of which are available to purchase as part of the album, or may be downloaded individually. Be warned: if you're a fan of the old school version of the soundtrack, it might be best to take a listen to all of the samples over on Amazon before purchasing - some customers have voiced disappointment in the remastered versions of old favorites, due to the "updated" sound of the recording. The remastered version of A Charlie Brown Christmas is out now on physical cd and as a digital download. Since the big day is right around the corner, settle in and enjoy A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving below: Professionally shot video from Mazzy Star's 1994 performance at the Bridge School Concert in Mountain View, California has appeared on You Tube. Enjoy the band's five song performance taken from the October 2nd concert below: "Halah" "Ride It On" "Flowers In December" "Leaving On A Train" "Fade Into You" Twitter exchange from today that will make you smile: @andyrourke64 Good on you Andy. Love and best. Johnny x — Johnny Marr (@Johnny_Marr) November 17, 2012 Awwww! Kinda makes you want to give both of them a big hug! Super cool stuff! If you haven't heard Marr's new single, "The Messenger" check out the single and video below: Adam Ant drops his new album Adam Ant Is The Blueblack Hussar In Marrying The Gunner's Daughter early next year and has just released "Cool Zombie," the first single from the album. The full video for "Cool Zombie" is expected to premiere shortly, but in the meantime check out the official video preview below: The "Cool Zombie" single is available now on iTunes and Amazon. KMFDM return with a new album, Kunst, early next year. The tentative release date for the album is February 26th, but fans don't have much longer to wait to hear new music. KMFDM announced that fans will get a first listen of Kunst on Wednesday, November 21st at 4:30 pm ET. The band has also posted tour dates for a March U.S. tour. Tracklisting for the album and tour dates are posted below: 03/08 - Portland, OR - Star Theater 03/10 - Los Angeles, CA - Fonda Theatre 03/11 - Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory 03/12 - Phoenix - AZ - Crescent Ballroom 03/17 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse 03/18 - Falls Church, VA - State Theatre 03/19 - Philadelphia, PA - The Trocadero Theatre 03/20 - Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club 03/22 - Pittsburgh, PA - Mr. Small's Theatre 03/23 - Chicago, IL - HOB 03/24 - Milwaukee, WI - Shank Hall 03/25 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue 03/27 - Denver, CO - Summit Music Hall 03/28 - Salt Lake City UT - The Depot 03/29 - Boise, ID - Knitting Factory 03/30 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo Tracklisting for Kunst 10. I(heart)Not Dinosaur Jr is celebrating the 25th anniversary of You're Living All Over Me this year and to celebrate the band is releasing a rare live Dinosaur Jr recording from 1987. The 11 song set was recorded in 1987 at a show in Doornroosje, Nijmegen, Netherlands and features the original Dinosaur Jr line-up of J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph. Chocomel Daze will be released on 150 gm vinyl and as a digital download album on November 19th. The limited edition vinyl will also be available for the Black Friday edition of Record Store Day. To celebrate the vinyl release, the official Record Store Day website is offering an exclusive stream of the album! Head here to listen to the full album, and while you're there be sure to check out the list of other awesome Black Friday RSD releases and list of participating stores. Dinosaur Jr's 25th live celebration of You're Living All Over Me takes place December 1st at Terminal 5 in NYC. The band will perform the classic album in full and will be joined by musical luminaries such as Johnny Marr and Kim Gordon. Tickets for the event are still available. J Mascis Portlandia interview Johnny Marr is the man in demand! It's been announced previously that Marr will be joining Dinosaur Jr on stage December 1st in NYC, and now comes news that Marr will play guitar with the Pet Shop Boys on December 5th at their show in Salford, England. The Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant announced the news this morning today during an interview with BBC Radio 2 and dropped a new remix of their song "Memory Of The Future." Take a listen to a short clip of Tennant's BBC interview: listen to ‘Pet Shop Boys joined by Johnny Marr’ on Audioboo Paging Bernard Sumner! Wouldn't it be great if Barney stopped by on December 5th for a few Electronic songs??? Stream the Stuart Price new single mix of Pet Shop Boys' "Memory Of The Future" Meanwhile Johnny Marr is gearing up to release his debut solo album The Messenger in February. Earlier this week Marr premiered the first single and video from the album. Check it out here. It's been almost 10 years since Martin Gore released Counterfeit2, the follow up to his 1989 Counterfeit ep. After the full album was released in 2003, Gore spent some time touring the globe to promote the record. A full concert filmed on the May '03 stop in London recently appeared on You Tube. Enjoy all the Gore-y awesomeness below courtesy of FlameXIII. Audio of an acoustic Depeche Mode concert is also posted below courtesy of DepecheMix. 01. In My Time Of Dying 02. Stardust 03. I Cast A Lonesome Shadow 04. Only When I Lose Myself 05. Sweetest Perfection 06. Coming Back To You 07. By This River 08. Lost In The Stars (acoustic) 09. In Your Room (acoustic) 10.Walking In My Shoes (acoustic) 11. Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth (acoustic) 12. Surrender 13. The Love Thieves 14. Candy Says 16. A Question Of Lust (acoustic) 17. Home (acoustic) 18. Shake The Disease (acoustic) 01. Leave In Silence 02. It Doesn't Matter Two 03. Sister Of Night 04. Shake The Disease 05. Judas 06. I Want You Now 08. World Full Of Nothing 10. A Question Of Lust 12. Here Is The House 13. Dressed In Black 14. Life Is Strange 15. Blue Dress More on Depeche Mode: Listen/watch: Depeche Mode unveil new song at Paris press conference Collection of new Depeche Mode interviews New remixes of songs by Depeche Mode, Yaz, Front 242 & more Listen: new remix of Depeche Mode's classic "Somebody" Bob Mould - A Celebration of the Music & Legacy of Bob Mould Last November a Bob Mould tribute concert hosted by Matt Pinfield and featuring performances by Dave Grohl, Ryan Adams, Grant Lee Phillips, members of The Shins, The Hold Steady, Superchunk, (and even Bob Mould himself!) took place at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Filmmaker Justin Mitchell spent the day filming Mould and performers prior to the concert as well as capturing the full show in high quality audio and video for a DVD release. A Kickstarter campaign to fund See A Little Light: A Celebration of the Music & Legacy of Bob Mould began earlier this week and runs through December 22nd. Some of the pledge incentives include prints, vinyl, an autographed stratocaster similar to the one played by Mould, handwritten lyrics, and more. Head over to Kickstarter to pledge now. The campaign video and fan filmed footage from the November 21st concert featuring Dave Grohl and Bob Mould is posted below. "Hardly Getting Over It" "Could You Be The One" "Ice Cold Ice" "See A Little Light" Bob Mould + friends For more on Bob Mould: Bob Mould on Conan + September studio session Video of Bob Mould captured live in Los Angeles Noel Gallagher on Oasis reunion: If I'm Ever Skint I'll Do It Noel Gallagher was interviewed on BBC Radio 6 as part of legends week. Gallagher's been asked time and time and time again about getting Oasis back together, and today's interview with the BBC was no different. Here's a clip of Noel's response to the Oasis question: listen to ‘Noel Gallagher says Oasis won't return’ on Audioboo There you have it. Oasis isn't getting back together unless Noel needs the money. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds released their debut album last November and followed up the release with a the DVD International Magic Live at the O2, which are both available to purchase here. A second HFB album was recorded with Amorphous Androgynous, however Noel has revealed in several interviews that the sessions have been scrapped. Meanwhile Beady Eye revealed they're working on their second album and have enlisted TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek to produce the record. For more on Noel Gallagher: Noel Gallagher dusted off Oasis "Idler's Dream" for U.S. tour closer Noel deals with more Oasis reunion questions & compares Liam to Hitler Damon Albarn helped the BBC celebrate their 90th anniversary today. "Radio Reunited," a three minute collection of sound clips and music composed by Albarn aired on every BBC radio station worldwide today at 12:33 pm ET. Take a listen to "Radio Reunited" below and find out more about the BBC's 90th anniversary here. Meanwhile Blur return with the CD/DVD Parklive on December 3rd - the collection is the band's full performance captured at their Hyde Park gig in August after the close of the Olympics. Watch "Under The Westway" from Parklive below and pre-order the collection here. The Smiths - Strangeways documentary + new biography A recent British radio documentary on The Smiths' classic 1987 album Strangeways Here We Come and the band's final days has appeared online. The BBC special features new interviews with Mike Joyce, Andy Rourke and producer Stephen Street, as well as some old interview clips with Morrissey and Johnny Marr. Enjoy the documentary below courtesy of Hipster Disco. Fans of the Smiths may be interested in a new book A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga Of The Smiths. The Tony Fletcher penned book is a celebration of the Smiths and their legacy. According to the publisher, A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga Of The Smiths was the product of extensive research, dozens of interviews, and unprecedented access. A short video interview with Fletcher is posted below. A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga Of The Smiths is out now in the U.K. and will be released in North America on December 4th. Interesting to note the U.K. cover (black background) is different than the U.S. version (orange background). Trent Reznor on Year Zero, The Fragile, QOTSA + more Trent Reznor had a busy day today - besides releasing two separate projects (he wrote the theme for Call Of Duty Black Ops II plus released An Omen ep with his side project How To Destroy Angels) he appeared on Reddit to answer fan questions. Some of the more interesting revelations he made are posted below: On the Year Zero miniseries: "This is currently in a holding state. We didn't find the right match with a writer, and really have been avoiding doing what we should have done from the beginning: write it ourselves. We = Rob and myself. This project means a lot to me and will see the light of day in one form or another." On The Fragile reissue: "The 5.1 mixes are done and sound amazing. Alan was the only person who could have possibly done it, and he did not disappoint. There are a couple other elements involved that we want to get right before we put this into production. These involve packaging and additional content. Patience, my friends." On the first computer/software he used for music: "I had a Commodore 64 with, I think, the Sequential Circuits Model 64 Sequencer Cartridge. And it was the greatest thing in the world (or so I thought at the time). Moving on... The first "real" platform I used for composition was a Mac+ running Performer. Pretty Hate Machine was done with this." On his favorite gear he's ever owned: "My Dad got me a Wurlitzer 200a electric piano as a preteen, and it pretty much changed the trajectory of my life. That piano is long gone, but I did recently pick one up, which I love." On coming up with 'Halo' for all the NIN releases: "I remember Depeche Mode did a similar thing and I thought it was cool. Somebody please remind me what the word Depeche Mode used was, I'm too old to remember what it was." (Depeche Mode used Stumm, Mutel, and Bong) On what's next for him: "A number of things. Tweaking some things for the HTDA full LP (coming in Spring), helping Josh out on a new QOTSA track, working with Roy, starting rehearsals for two bands." In case you're wondering, Trent didn't reveal much about new NIN material. A fan asked: "Can you disclosure any future plans for Nine Inch Nails?" Trent's full response: "Sure I could." Read the full archive over at Reddit. Johnny Marr appeared on BBC Radio 6 today as part of Legends week and debuted the title track from his forthcoming album, The Messenger. Watch the official video for "The Messenger" below - the song and video are pretty amazing! Marr was also interviewed on BBC Radio 6 and spoke about Morrissey and their "non-rivalry." listen to ‘"The opposite of a rivalry" @johnny_marr on writing with Morrissey’ on Audioboo The archive of the show is posted here. Johnny Marr revealed previously that the album was written while on the road with The Cribs and has an English/European feel to it. Marr will release his debut solo album The Messenger on February 26th and is expected to announce live dates shortly. Marr heads to New York City's Terminal 5 on December 1st to help Dinosaur Jr celebrate the anniversary of their classic album You're Living All Over Me. Marr won't be playing the full show with Dinosaur Jr but will be joining them for a few songs. As previously reported, Ian Brown is releasing a limited edition boxset on December 3rd titled Collected which includes all eight of Brown's previously released albums, two b-side/remix CDs, a 12" LP, DVD, 60 page hard back book with photos and artwork, and a silkscreen print. Brown has uploaded a series of promo videos showing the making of the limited edition artwork/lithograph. Take a look at the clips below and pre-order Collected here. UPDATE: Click the links to stream four previously unreleased tracks from Collected. "Time Is My Everything" (Scratch Perverts remix) "Stellify" (Filthy Dukes remix) "Always Remember Me" (Evil Nine remix) "Sister Rose" (Ryukyudisco remix) Watch some pro-shot footage of Ian Brown's 2005 Glastonbury performance. The footage was captured from the camera stream and according to Brown, the video was recently found on a repaired hard drive. Pretty fantastic! "Waterfall" "Sally Cinnamon" "Made Of Stone" Update: The Madchester Guitar auction on Ebay ended yesterday. The guitar, which was signed by Manchester music royalty (including members of the Stone Roses, Smiths, Oasis, Charlatans, Chameleons, and more), fetched 6,600 British pounds - over 10 thousand U.S. dollars! The auction was organized by Adam Masters, who came up with the idea to raise funds after the death of his friend's newborn baby. Masters spent almost two years contacting bands and obtaining signatures, and he did a fantastic job! Proceeds from the auction of the "Madchester" guitar will be donated to Clair House Children's Hospice in Liverpool and Francis House Children's Hospice in Manchester. For more info on the guitar and fundraiser, visit Madchester Guitar on Facebook. Make up dates for Morrissey's postponed North American tour were announced today and the rescheduled Detroit area show is January 24th at the Whiting Auditorium in Flint. Several new dates have been added to the tour and a few shows were canceled due to scheduling conflicts. Fans who have tickets for rescheduled shows should hold on to their tickets (postponed tickets will be honored at the make up dates). Tickets for the newly announced shows are on sale now, and ticketholders for any canceled shows should go to point of purchase for refunds. Morrissey returns to the road next month with a six shows run of New Zealand and Australia. The full tour itinerary is posted below: New Zealand/Australian tour: Rescheduled North American tour: 1/24 Flint, MI @ The Whiting Ned's Atomic Dustbin + Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine- Live in London On November 10th, Ned's Atomic Dustbin played a show at London's Brixton Academy as the warmup act for Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine. The gig was a one-off show, though Ned's have one more live gig lined up this year December 1st at England's Civic Hall in Wolverhampton where the band will premiering their DVD Nothing Is Cool for fans after their performance. As for Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, the band just released a remaster of 1992 The Love Album, plus they're offering a name-you-own-price download of a 19 track live recording made in 1991 on bandcamp. Watch video of both bands captured at last night's show in London. The first video features Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine with special guest Tom Hingley (ex-Inspiral Carpets vocalist) for a performance of the Carpets' classic "This Is How It Feels." Video posted courtesy of Andunemir. Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine ft Tom Hingley "This Is How It Feels" Carter USM "Sheriff Fatman" Carter USM "Anytime Anyplace Anywhere" Ned's Atomic Dustbin "Gray Cell Green" Ned's Atomic Dustbin "Walking Through Syrup" Ned's Atomic Dustbin "Happy" Ned's Atomic Dustbin "Kill Your Television" Trent Reznor composed the theme to Call of Duty Black Ops II. The game and soundtrack drop November 13th, but the theme has leaked out prior to the release. Stream the theme below (via Antiquiet) and pre-order the game here and the soundtrack here. Meanwhile, Trent's other musical project How To Destroy Angels release a new ep, An Omen, on November 13th. Stream the full ep below and download their 2010 self-titled ep for free here. If you missed the exciting news a few days ago, Trent Reznor revealed in a new interview that he's been working on some new Nine Inch Nails material! Read more about that here. An Elvis Costello collection titled In Motion Pictures will be released on November 19th. The album compiles 15 of Costello's songs featured in films (blockbusters and indie/cult films such as The Big Lebowski, Godfather III, I Want You, ET, Straight To Hell, Prison Song, Notting Hill) and were handpicked by Costello himself for the release. Note that the release doesn't include EVERY Costello song that ever appeared on the silver screen, nor does it include songs used in television programs. In Motion Pictures is available to pre-order now from Amazon U.S. and Amazon U.K. The tracklisting is posted below. 01. Accidents Will Happen 02. Lover's Walk 03. Miracle Man 04. Life Shrinks 05. Crawling To The U.S.A. 06. Seven Day Weekend 07. Days 08. I Want You 09. You Stole My Bell 10. My Mood Swings 11. Oh Well 12. God Give Me Strength 13. Sparkling Day 14. She 15. A Town Called A Big Nothing On November 13th Soundgarden return with King Animal, their first new album since 1996's Down On The Upside. The band have a LOT going on over the next little while to celebrate the release of their album and much of the activity is lined out below: Webstream/late night appearances On Monday, November 12th Soundgarden play a concert at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City for a Live On Letterman webcast. The concert streams live here and here at 8pm, and will be available for on-demand viewing thereafter (sometimes there's up to about an 8 hour lag before the concert is fully uploaded and ready for on-demand viewing, so don't stress if the archive doesn't show up for a good 8 hours post-show.) Soundgarden will also be featured on Letterman's late night show on Monday night (airs at 11:35 pm on CBS). Soundgarden play a mini-concert for Jimmy Kimmel Live on November 26th. A portion of the mini-concert is scheduled to air on Kimmel's late night show. Last week Soundgarden appeared on the BBC show Later...With Jools Holland. Watch the band's performance of "Been Away Too Long" and "Rusty Cage" here. Soundgarden kick off a 20 date North American tour in January and play the Fillmore Detroit on January 27th. The general onsale is Friday, November 16th at 10am through Live Nation, but fans who belong to Soundgarden's fanclub will have access to tickets starting Monday, November 12th at 10am. If you're not in the fanclub yet - no worries because it's FREE to join. Sign up for a free membership here. Keep in mind being a member of the fanclub does not guarantee tickets. It's too soon to know what Soundgarden have planned for their North American tour, but if their November 9th show in London is any indication, the band will be playing hits, new songs, and even some VERY old songs from their catalog. Watch some awesome fan filmed video captured at the November 9th show here. Incidentally, there's always rumors floating around about a Pearl Jam/Soundgarden co-headline tour (the bands share drummer Matt Cameron), but please disregard those rumors. Both bands have shot the rumors down and Cameron himself says there's no way he could physically handle a feat such as that. King Animal album stream: King Animal will finally be released on Tuesday, November 13th and the full album is streaming ahead of the release right now over at iTunes. Canadian fans: iTunes in Canada isn't offering the free stream, however the album has made its way over to You Tube, so you may want to head over there to check it out. King Animal commentary: Soundgarden have uploaded several commentary videos for individual songs on King Animal. Links to commentary videos are posted below: "Worse Dreams" "Eyelid's Mouth" "Taree" "Halfway There" "Non-State Actor" "Bones Of Birds" "By Crooked Steps" "Been Away Too Long" Soundgarden premiered the official video for "Been Away Too Long" Watch the video below: Soundgarden on 'King Animal' and why they shouldn't have broken up (Billboard) Animal instinct: the return of Soundgarden (Spin) Fuse video interview with Chris Cornell and Ben Shepherd Check back for more updates on Soundgarden in the coming days!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line562
__label__cc	0.620518	0.379482	Home Forums > Analyzing Scientology > Scientology Front Groups and Alliances > Nation of Islam and Related Groups > Nation of Islam Minister Lawrence Muhammad welcomes Scientology Baton Rouge Mission Discussion in 'Nation of Islam and Related Groups' started by CommunicatorIC, Jul 22, 2017. CommunicatorIC @IndieScieNews on Twitter Nation of Islam Student Minister Brother Lawrence Muhammad completes Hubbard Pro TRs Supervisor Course and welcomes Scientology Mission of Baton Rouge. NOTE ON NOMENCLATURE: In the Nation of Islam all ministers with the exception of Minister Farrakhan are called "Student Ministers." This is because they are students of Minister Farrakhan. Scientology: Celebrating 30 Years of Service to Baton Rouge, Church of Scientology Dedicates New Louisiana Home http://www.scientologynews.org/press-releases/celebrating-30-years-of-service-to-baton-rouge-church-of-scientology-dedicates.html Wireupdate: Celebrating 30 Years of Service to Baton Rouge, Church of Scientology Dedicates New Louisiana Home https://www.wireupdate.com/2017/07/09/celebrating-30-years-of-service-to-baton-rouge-church-of-scientology-dedicates-new-louisiana-home/ * * * * * BEGIN EXCERPT * * * * * Celebrating 30 Years of Service to Baton Rouge, Church of Scientology Dedicates New Louisiana Home Jul 10, 2017 - (Newswire) July 8 was a red-letter day for Louisiana, as leaders in the state's capital welcomed the Scientology Mission of Baton Rouge to its new, expanded home. The hot Louisiana sun warmed attendees as hundreds gathered for the grand opening ceremony just blocks from the banks of the mighty Mississippi. Scientologists and their guests were joined by community leaders and dignitaries in dedicating the new facility. Welcoming the Mission and speaking of how the work of Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard has benefited their lives were Professor and Chair of Physics at Southern University, Dr. Diola Bagayoko; Louisiana NAACP President and member of the NAACP National Board, Rev. Dr. Ernest L. Johnson, Sr., Esq.; and entrepreneur and Nation of Islam Student Minister Brother Lawrence Muhammad. Brother Lawrence Muhammad's introduction to Dianetics completely changed his outlook on life and his ability to help others. "This is a rough and tough world that we live in. We get wounds that scar us on the inside as well as the outside. The external wounds can be healed with ointment and time. The internal wounds don't heal this way. They don’t disappear, but rather, they accumulate until they rob you of the spirit of life. But this technology is an ointment that can help to heal the unseen wounds of humanity." * * * * * END EXCERPT * * * * * Student Minister Lawrence Muhammad has a significant photograph on his Twitter profile. Student Minister Muhammad is a Graduate of the Hubbard Pro TRs Supervisor Course. https://twitter.com/brolawrencem EDITED AGAIN TO ADD: CommunicatorIC, Jul 22, 2017 Re: Nation of Islam Minister Lawrence Muhammad welcomes Scientology Baton Rouge Missi PODCAST: Interview with Nation of Islam Student Minister Lawrence Muhammad. Brother Lawrence is a Dianetic Supervisor and Communications Supervisor. Interview tagged #Scientology #Dianetics #Auditing. Consciousness Convo: Are You Feeling Stuck? Suffering from Childhood Traumas? Try Dianetics http://www.blogtalkradio.com/consci...uffering-from-childhood-traumas-try-dianetics * * * * * BEGIN INTRODUCTION * * * * * Joining Conscious Conversations today is Lawrence Muhammad. Bro.Lawrence is a Dianetic Supervisor and Communications Supervisor. Please join the discussion as we touch on childhood traumas, getting unstuck, and so much more. * * * * * END INTRODUCTION * * * * * OP UPDATED TO ADD FOLLOWING PHOTOGRAPH: HelluvaHoax! Platinum Meritorious Sponsor with bells on I believe there is an extraordinary opportunity for both the Church of Scientology AND the Nation of Islam to salvage not only mankind--but their own horrifically rejected & ridiculed public relations image. It would only require a simple re-branding under an all-new-and-improved name! Suggestion for this epic cultic collaboration: Nation of Islam & Scientology Enterprises Maybe a new mission-statement motto would help too. . . DOUBLE THE UFOs! DOUBLE THE DBs, DECLARES & DISCONNECTIONS! All that without doubling your Donations! HelluvaHoax!, Jul 23, 2017 Nation of Islam Student Minister Brother Lawrence Muhammad gave a presentation on, "How We Can Use Dianetics as a Tool in the Work of Resurrection." http://www.imgrum.org/media/1219720590074663751_2014522131 CommunicatorIC said: ↑ This seems very squirrel to me, so it's probably safe to assume it's a SHOOP, because: --why else would the minister be wearing a slick suit & bow-tie, instead of the standard minister's yellow raincoat? --Ron never said anything about "resurrection", so either someone made that up (to sabotage planetary clearing) or they are running some "other practice" with a Resurrection Project Force? --It is obviously fake because no promo piece in Scientology history has ever not only allowed out tech but actually PROMOTED that people Q & A! (following the presentation) guanoloco As-Wased I see the picture of a man reading a book. This man is convinced that the black race has suffered at the hands of the white devil...and now he's studying freedom as written by L. Ron Hubbard...a red-headed ginger, whiter than white, who professed himself as the beast and the anti Christ who privately wrote that all men were his slaves...Crowley the Satanist was his very good friend and Ron had nothing but derogatory racist views of blacks. Was I ever this stupid? guanoloco, Jul 23, 2017 Wilbur Patron Meritorious guanoloco said: ↑ I've never understood why people tolerate the racist hatred spewed by groups like Nation of Islam. "Because the black man was enslaved by the white man hundreds of years ago, that means that the white man today needs to feel sorry today, and bend over backwards for the black man". In my humble opinion, that's bullshit, and makes the white-black divide insurmountable. It would be like me knocking on my neighbour's door, and saying "your great-great-great-great grandad owed my great-great-great-great grandad a thousand dollars. I want it back now, with interest". I don't know when slavery formally ended in the U.S.A., but I suspect that there's scarcely a black man alive today who knew a relative who was a slave. Black slavery has nothing to do with today's white population. They have nothing to apologise for. I can't be held responsible for what my family did six generations ago. You'd be hard-pushed to find a white person alive today who believes in slavery (well, except for nutters like the Ku Klux Klan). And I think the leaders of groups like NoI understand this. They are just using black history to perpetuate hatred between the races, in my opinion. They don't want "equality". I can't really speak for the U.S. with authority, but I know that in the UK, almost no white people are racist. It's just not a thing anymore.... Wilbur, Jul 23, 2017 Enthetan Master of Disaster Wilbur said: ↑ You'd be hard-pushed to find a white person alive today who believes in slavery (well, except for nutters like the Ku Klux Klan). Well, not in the US. In ISIS-controlled areas of Syria ... Enthetan, Jul 23, 2017 I've never understood why people tolerate the racist hatred spewed by groups like Nation of Islam. Every psychotic mass movement needs an enemy to focus on. In Scientology, it was "the psyches". In Nation of Islam, it's "white devils" with their "tricknology". For Hitler, it was the Jews. For Stalin, the Kulaks. They each needed something to focus hate upon. It makes things easy. Building a mass movement on "loving your neighbor" is much harder. Enthetan said: ↑ For the feminist PC leftist cult it's the cis gendered white hetero male. I would also add "in the Sea Org". In the Sea Org, we were considered property of Scientology. We would even have slave-catchers being sent out to recover SO members who tried to run away. Something's amiss with this pic, though. Notice the chicks in jeans in the background? Not gonna happen.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line567
__label__cc	0.516536	0.483464	Police: 2 dead, 1 injured following shootout near 3rd Avenue and Osborn Woodbury fire 100 percent contained, not controlled How to spot age-related memory loss Searchers find missing 2-year-old girl who wandered from Michigan campsite See ya later, alligator! Elusive reptile captured from Chicago lagoon Glendale police arrest man for 2016 death of child By Brent Corrado, FOX 10 , Nicole Garcia Posted May 17 2019 11:53AM MST Video Posted May 17 2019 05:07PM MST Updated May 17 2019 05:07PM MST Glendale police say they've arrested 24-year-old Austin Parker in connection to the 2016 death of an 18-month-old toddler. Read more. GLENDALE, Ariz. (FOX 10) - Glendale police say they've arrested a man in connection to the death of an 18-month-old toddler. According to the Glendale Police Department, 24-year-old Austin Parker was arrested on May 16 and charged in connection to the death of the child, which happened on September 4, 2016. Then 21-year-old Park was home alone caring for his daughter while his girlfriend was at work. He called 911 and she was rushed to the hospital, where she was declared dead. Doctors who treated the girl noticed signs of physical and sexual abuse. Glendale Police questioned Parker about bruises on the girl's head and abdomen - court records show Parker told them they were accidental. He said he squeezed the girl's waist in anger and accidentally leaned against her with his elbow. Police served a search warrant at Parker's apartment and collected a sexual assault kit from the father. Two years would pass without an arrest, then the case went to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office Cold Case Unit. A pediatric trauma surgeon was brought on to review the case which eventually led to the father's arrest. The surgeon reported the girl had internal bleeding from a cut in her liver caused by severe force. The girl's body then when into shock. By the time emergency crews got to her, she was already dead. According to the pediatric expert, had her father called for help earlier, the little girl could've survived the abuse. Parker is being held on a $1,000,000 cash only bond. By Kenneth Wong, FOX 10 , Associated Press Updated Jul 16 2019 09:30AM MST PHOENIX (FOX 10/AP) -- Several people are in custody for questioning, following what police describe as a "shootout" in Phoenix Monday afternoon. "We don't know if it was a robbery. We don't know if it was drug-related. A number of questions that we have that we are trying to get the answers to," said Sgt. Tommy Thompson with Phoenix Police. The incident happened in the area of 3rd Avenue and Osborn. FOX 10 has learned a 23-year-old man and a 20-year-old man died. A 33-year-old man suffered non-life threatening injuries. SWAT team members had to clear several apartments. Hearing set for former nurse charged with raping Hacienda patient Posted Jul 16 2019 08:37AM MST PHOENIX (AP) — A former nurse charged with raping and impregnating an incapacitated patient at a long-term care center in Phoenix is scheduled Tuesday to appear in court. The pretrial conference for Nathan Sutherland comes more than a month after he lost an appeal of a court order requiring a test to determine if he has HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases. It's unclear whether Sutherland has since taken the test. The 30-year-old patient, who had been living at Hacienda Healthcare since 1992, gave birth to a boy at the facility on Dec. 29. MIAMI, Ariz (FOX 10) — Arizona fire officials have confirmed the Woodbury Fire is now fully contained but not controlled. Incident Commander Trainee John Johanson said the Woodbury Fire was 100 percent contained Monday evening. The fire is contained around the perimeter edge but not controlled as there is still smoke and active fire on the interior. Twins once attached at head released from hospital after successful separation surgery Colombian man busted trying to smuggle cocaine under his wig	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line568
__label__wiki	0.912814	0.912814	71-year-old attacked at Lawrenceville Walmart Firefighters describe rescuing man, children stranded in Alcovy River House condemns Trump's 'racist' tweets in extraordinary rebuke Athens-Clarke 911 gets first Uber integrated emergency call Mark Owens of Star 94 talks day two of Amazon Prime Day Nonprofit Hosea Helps putting on a Back to School Jamboree Tuesday Night Clock Group keeps time ticking Fighting for fitness with George Foreman III Instant offers for your home: convenience at a price Police: Home invader shoots man in the leg Posted Nov 13 2018 05:34AM EST Video Posted Nov 13 2018 06:51PM EST Updated Nov 13 2018 07:34PM EST SOUTH FULTON, Ga. - Police are searching for the person who shot a man during a home invasion early Tuesday morning. South Fulton Police said it happened around 3 a.m. when someone broke into a home along Brookwood Place and opened fire. The victim was hit in the leg and taken to the hospital. No arrests have been made and no suspects have been named. The name of the victim has not yet been released. By Colleen Killingsworth, Kelly Taylor Hayes Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has died, the court confirmed. He was 99. When he retired from the Supreme Court on June 29, 2010, he had served for 34 years and six months, making him the second-oldest serving justice in the history of the court, and the third-longest serving Supreme Court justice in history. Had he served just three days more, he would have tied for the second-longest serving justice in history. Stevens was known during his tenure on the Supreme Court to be one of the more liberal voices, even though Stevens said, “I don't think of myself as a liberal at all ,” in a 2007 interview with the New York Times . By Portia Bruner, FOX 5 News Lawrenceville police issued a BOLO late Tuesday afternoon for a woman they say is responsible for punching a 71-year-old Lawrenceville woman inside a Walmart on June 29. The victim asked FOX 5 News not to show her face, but she was willing to share a photo of the black eye she suffered after she was inside the Lawrenceville Highway. She said it started when she and another woman narrowly avoided bumping carts in aisle 11 as they tried to pass one another. "She said says, ‘Excuse me!' And came all of the MFs and B words and I told her to watch her mouth and that's when she hold-off and slammed her fist into my face," the woman told FOX 5's Portia Bruner. College student hospitalized after hit and run in Buckhead The search continued Tuesday for the driver who hit a young woman in Buckhead and fled the scene. Atlanta police said Chelzie Parmer was crossing the street at Peachtree Road at East Shadowlawn Avenue early Sunday. "It's almost as if it never slowed down," said Ashia Pace, who was with the 20-year-old victim.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line569
__label__cc	0.738108	0.261892	WHAT DODD-FRANK CAN LEARN FROM ISLAMIC FINANCE Five years ago this month, Congress took a step toward reining in elements of a troubled financial system when it passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The move was touted as an end to the laissez-faire principles embodied in the repeal of Glass-Steagall, which had previously protected against many of the excesses the banking industry is now notorious for. A Pew poll from earlier this year found that 63% of Americans said the US economic system is no more secure today than it was before the 2008 economic crisis. One explanation for this may have to do with inadequacies in the legislation. How can we continue to make things better? One answer can be found in the principles of Islamic finance. Almost everyone remembers that high-risk loans, speculation, and leverage fueled the run-up to the Financial Crisis. As the financial sector began to collapse in mid-September 2008, the aggregate default and the trading of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) was a major liability. Banks bought and sold MBS products of all types, keeping some on their books but shifting most of the credit risk to bank trading partners. Although Dodd-Frank provides for securitizing banks to retain an economic interest in the credit risk of any asset transferred, sold, or conveyed to a third party, the amount is less than 10% and exemptions to this rule abound. Islamic finance expressly prohibits the buying and selling of debt and elevates lending (without interest) to be a charitable activity, incentivizing instead risk-taking ventures in partnership with customers in order to produce a tangible impact in communities. At its core, the credit and housing market crisis was caused by a banking industry that issued loans at excessive interest rates to home buyers who ultimately defaulted. Families with adjustable-rate mortgages were left vulnerable to fluctuating interest rates. These unsound banking practices are still condoned by Dodd-Frank in various forms. Islamic finance, which recognizes the consequences of charging a gain without sharing the risk, prohibits these practices due to the inherent inequity this arrangement causes between the parties. According to Islamic finance, riba, which is usually translated as “interest,” “usury,” or both, is considered a tool of oppression, as it exploits the needy by unjustly taking their money and enabling those who receive it to -illicitly hoard wealth. Over time, the effects of riba take a toll on society, limiting upward mobility and creating an entrenched financial elite. The principles of Islamic finance are steered by the need for justice and fairness in financial arrangements. Dodd-Frank was an attempt to move us closer to correcting the excesses of a banking sector still desperately in need of structure, or at the very least a conscience. There’s something to be said for the stability brought by a system centered on justice. Until we have a banking system that more fully participates in a partnership with customers—instead of treating them like nameless, faceless numbers on a spreadsheet—we distance ourselves from the ideals of a just society. Finally, one of the biggest reasons we still sit on the precipice of crisis five years after Dodd-Frank is that many of its components still need to be written. Doubtless, this has created an environment of uncertainty and timidity in the banking industry. Politicians talk about making lasting reforms but have yet to follow through. This regulatory limbo cannot abide. Talk is cheap. Dodd-Frank can be better, and the principles of Islamic finance can help. Joshua Brockwell is the Director of Investment Communications at Azzad Asset Management. Azzad Asset Management is investment advisor to the Azzad Funds, halal mutual funds that follow investing criteria outlined by the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI). Azzad is renowned both for its advocacy of the Seven Tenets of Halal Investing and as sponsor of the first Shariah-compliant, socially responsible fixed-income mutual fund in the United States, the Azzad Wise Capital Fund. (Oil And Gas Financial Journal / 27 July 2015) Posted by Editor at Wednesday, July 29, 2015 Labels: Islamic finance Malaysia sukuk sale lures weakest demand in 2015 o... South Africa proposes extending sukuk to corporate... Female banker takes on Islamic industry RAM Ratings reaffirms MRCB Southern Link’s Senior ... Margin, scale issues to hit smaller Islamic insura... Malaysia: Maybank Ageas aims equal contribution fr... Malaysia: RM38bil in sukuk planned for this year Islamic Finance System In Turkey Malaysia: West Coast’s proposed RM1b sukuk rated A... Tecom Investments and Amlak Finance launch off-pla... Investments help to lift Sharjah Islamic Bank prof... Islamic Finance to fund Sustainable Development Go... Demand grows for Islamic finance body IILM sukuk New legislation on Islamic banking pushed Tanzania: NBC Expands Islamic Banking Products in ... Japan: Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ gets Dubai Isl... Malaysia: Bank Negara sukuk pull-back opens door w... Ramadan: Purify your fast by giving Zakat Al Fitr Lidasan: What we need to know about Islamic bankin... Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank Exploring Expansion Into SE... Aafaq in tie-up to promote Islamic finance Islamic banks’ finances surge 107 per cent in Oman... SUKUK PIPELINE - Issue plans around the world Islamic finance on bank's €475k training bill for ... Germany's first interest-free Islamic bank opens i... Growing Demand for Islamic Finance Talent Qatar Islamic Bank raises 2 billion riyals with Ti... Malaysia: Islamic banking on track to meet 40pc of...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line572
__label__wiki	0.722182	0.722182	Getting Away With Murder 101 I can't believe they've got this guy mugging it up on the cover of The Post; the gloriously exonerated "G-Man". Unless maybe G stands for guilty? "Lindley DeVecchio and wife Carolyn rub salt in the wounds of vanquished Brooklyn DA Joe Hynes last night - toasting the dismissal of mob murder charges against him at Sparks Steak House, where Gambino godfather Paul Castellano got whacked in 1985, paving the way for John Gotti to take over the crime family. " The food is good," deadpanned DeVecchio as he, Carolyn, lawyers and friends grabbed a back table and cracked open a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne after sipping cocktails at the bar. "Porterhouse - that's what I want," said Carolyn DeVecchio. Oh yeah, Carolyn? This guy must feel invincible. I can't believe he'd go to Sparks and celebrate like this. And now he's complaining about how will he ever get his reputation back? "After almost two years, this nightmare is over," said DeVecchio, referring to the time since his indictment. "My question is, `Where do I go to get back my reputation?'" I bet this guy will sue in civil court now. Amazing; just amazing. Joe Coffey, former head of the New York Organized Crime Task Force wondered: "Have we got another O.J. Simpson here?". And yes, he was referring to DeVecchio; DeVecchio, quite literally, getting away with murder sans the white Bronco chase. This whole case and the timing of its sudden implosion smells fishy; everything about it seems suspicious. I hope some greater good will eventually come out of it; otherwise an ex-FBI agent has gotten away with murder. Plain and simple. "Prosecutors decided to dismiss all charges against Lindley DeVecchio after reviewing tapes of interviews key witness Linda Schiro gave a decade ago that contradicted much of her testimony this week." The key word there is much; Much but not all. If enough stock was put into Linda Schiro's testimony to dismiss a murder case, then equal faith should be put into the parts of Schiro's testimony which didn't contradict with what she said in that '97 Voice interview. Do you not agree? The court-appointed attorney for Schiro said despite the discrepancies raised by the Voice interview, she stood by her recent sworn testimony. "She told the truth in court under oath," said her lawyer, Gary Farrell. We are comparing apples and oranges here. What Linda said under oath in court and what she said ten years ago in a sensational editorialised piece in the Village Voice?! Basically an old Village Voice article collapsed this case in a matter of moments; a fucking murder case where an ex-FBI agent was indicted!?! I call "bullshit!". How about you? Prosecutors dropped murder charges against an ex-FBI agent accused of feeding confidential information to a homicidal mob informant in what was billed as one of the "worst law enforcement corruption cases in U.S. history"... because of an editorial in the Village Voice?!?!! Something smells like shit, here. And we've got a justice system in need of serious lobotomy. interview with Peter Lance Judge Compares DeVecchio Case to the War on Terror NY Judge: FBI Made `deal With the Devil'	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line577
__label__cc	0.661853	0.338147	A Cobbler in Jail Pilgrim's Progress First Edition John Bunyan (1628–1688). The Pilgrim’s Progress. John Bunyan, imprisoned for preaching without a license, gave to the world "Pilgrim's Progress," the greatest allegory in any language, second only to the Bible. The Pilgrim’s Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The First Part Now he bethought himself of setting forward, and they were willing he should: but first, said they, let us go again into the Armory: So they did; and when they came there, they harnessed him from head to foot with what was of proof, lest perhaps he should meet with assaults in the way. He being therefore thus accoutred, walketh out with his friends to the Gate, and there he asked the Porter if he saw any Pilgrims pass by: Then the Porter answered, Yes. Chr. Pray, did you know him? said he. Por. I asked his name, and he told me it was Faithful. Chr. O, said Christian, I know him; he is my Townsman, my near Neighbor, he comes from the place where I was born: How far do you think he may be before? Por. He is got by this time below the Hill. Chr. Well, said Christian, good Porter, the Lord be with thee, and add to all thy blessings much increase, for the kindness that thou hast shewed to me. Whilst Christian is among his godly friends, Their golden mouths make him sufficient mends For all his griefs, and when they let him go, He’s clad with northern Steel from top to toe. Then he began to go forward; but Discretion, Piety, Charity, and Prudence,would accompany him down to the foot of the Hill. So they went on together, reiterating their former discourses, till they came to go down the Hill. Then said Christian, As it was difficult coming up, so (so far as I can see) it is dangerous going down. Yes, said Prudence, so it is, for it is a hard matter for a man to go down into the Valley of Humiliation, as thou art now, and to catch no slip by the way; therefore, said they, are we come out to accompany thee down the Hill. So he began to go down, but very warily; yet he caught a slip or two. Then I saw in my Dream that these good Companions, when Christian was gone down to the bottom of the Hill, gave him a loaf of Bread, a bottle of Wine, and a cluster of Raisins; and then he went on his way. But now, in this Valley of Humiliation, poor Christian was hard put to it; for he had gone but a little way, before he espied a foul Fiend coming over the field to meet him; his name is Apollyon. Then did Christian begin to be afraid, and to cast in his mind whether to go back or to stand his ground: But he considered again that he had no Armor for his back, and therefore thought that to turn back to him might give him the greater advantage with ease to pierce him with his Darts. Therefore he resolved to venture and stand his ground; For, thought he, had I no more in mine eye than the saving of my life, ’twould be the best way to stand. So he went on, and Apollyon met him. Now the Monster was hideous to behold; he was cloathed with scales like a Fish (and they are his pride); he had wings like a Dragon, feet like a Bear, and out of his belly came Fire and Smoke; and his mouth was as the mouth of a Lion. When he was come up to Christian,he beheld him with a disdainful countenance, and thus began to question with him. Apol. Whence come you? and whither are you bound? Chr. I am come from the City of Destruction, which is the place of all evil, and am going to the City of Zion. Apol. By this I perceive thou art one of my Subjects, for all that Country is mine, and I am the Prince and God of it. How is it then thou hast run away from thy King? Were it not that I hope thou mayest do me more service, I would strike thee now at one blow to the ground. Chr. I was born indeed in your dominions, but your service was hard, and your wages such as a man could not live on, for the wages of sin is death;therefore when I was come to years, I did as other considerate persons do, look out, if perhaps I might mend myself. Apol. There is no Prince that will thus lightly lose his Subjects, neither will I as yet lose thee: but since thou complainest of thy service and wages, be content to go back; what our Country will afford, I do here promise to give thee. Chr. But I have let myself to another, even to the King of Princes, and how can I with fairness go back with thee. Apol. Thou hast done in this, according to the Proverb, changed a bad for a worse; but it is ordinary for those that have professed themselves his Servants, after a while to give him the slip, and return again to me: Do thou so too, and all shall be well. Chr. I have given him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to him; how then can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a Traitor? Apol. Thou didst the same to me, and yet I am willing to pass by all, if now thou wilt yet turn again and go back. Chr. What I promised thee was in my nonage; and besides, I count that the Prince under whose Banner now I stand is able to absolve me; yea, and to pardon also what I did as to my compliance with thee; and besides, O thou destroying Apollyon, to speak truth, I like his Service, his Wages, his Servants, his Government, his Company and Country, better than thine; and therefore leave off to persuade me further; I am his Servant and I will follow him. Apol. Consider again when thou art in cool blood, what thou art like to meet with in the way thou that goest. Thou knowest that for the most part, his Servants come to an ill end, because they are transgressors against me and my ways: How many of them have been put to shameful deaths; and besides, thou contest his service better than mine, whereas he never came yet from the place where he is to deliver any that served him out of our hands; but as for me, how many times, as all the World very well knows, have I delivered, either by power or fraud, those that have faithfully served me, from him and his, though taken by them; and so I will deliver thee. Chr. His forbearing at present to deliver them is on purpose to try their love, whether they will cleave to him to the end; and as for the ill end sayest they come to, that is most glorious in their account; for present deliverance, they do not much expect it, for they stay for their Glory, and then they shall have it, when their Prince comes in his and the Glory of the Angels. Apol. Thou hast already been unfaithful in thy service to him, and how dost thou think to receive wages of him? Chr. Wherein, O Apollyon, have I been unfaithful to him? Apol. Thou didst faint at first setting out, when thou wast almost choked in the Gulf of Dispond; thou didst attempt wrong ways to be rid of thy Burden, whereas thou shouldst have stayed till thy Prince had taken it off; thou didst sinfully sleep and lose thy choice thing; thou wast also almost persuaded to go back, at the sight of the Lions; and when thou talkest of thy Journey, and of what thou hast heard and seen, thou art inwardly desirous of vain-glory in all that thou sayest or doest. Chr. All this is true, and much more which thou hast left out; but the Prince whom I serve and honor is merciful, and ready to forgive; but besides, these infirmities possessed me in thy Country, for there I sucked them in, and I have groaned under them, been sorry for them, and have obtained Pardon of my Prince. Apol. Then Apollyon broke out into a grievous rage, saying, I am an enemy to this Prince; I hate his Person, his Laws, and People; I am come out on purpose to withstand thee. Chr. Apollyon, beware what you do, for I am in the King’s High-way, the way of Holiness, therefore take heed to yourself. Apol. Then Apollyon straddled quite over the whole breadth of the way, and said, I am void of fear in this matter, prepare thyself to die; for I swear by my infernal Den, that thou shalt go no further; here will I spill thy soul. And with that he threw a flaming Dart at his breast, but Christian had a Shield in his hand, with which he caught it, and so prevented the danger of that. Then did Christian draw, for he saw ’twas time to bestir him: and Apollyon as fast made at him, throwing Darts as thick as Hail; by the which, notwithstanding all that Christian could do to avoid it, Apollyon wounded him in his head, his hand, and foot: This made Christian give a little back; Apollyon therefore followed his work amain, and Christian again took courage, and resisted as manfully as he could. This sore Combat lasted for above half a day, even tillChristian was almost quite spent; for you must know that Christian, by reason of his wounds, must needs grow weaker and weaker. Then Apollyon espying his opportunity, began to gather up close to Christian,and wrestling with him, gave him a dreadful fall; and with that Christian’s Sword flew out of his hand. Then said Apollyon, I am sure of thee now: and with that he had almost pressed him to death, so that Christian began to despair of life: but as God would have it, while Apollyon was fetching of his last blow, thereby to make a full end of this good man, Christian nimbly stretched out his hand for his Sword, and caught it, saying, Rejoice not against me, O mine Enemy! when I fall I shall arise; and with that gave him a deadly thrust, which made him give back, as one that had received his mortal wound: Christian, perceiving that, made at him again, saying, Nay, in all these things we are more than Conquerors through him that loved us. And with that Apollyon spread forth his Dragon’s wings, and sped him away, that Christian for a season saw him no more. In this Combat no man can imagine, unless he had seen and heard as I did, what yelling and hideous roaring Apollyon made all the time of the fight, he spake like a Dragon; and on the other side, what sighs and groans burst from Christian’s heart. I never saw him all the while give so much as one pleasant look, till he perceived he had wounded Apollyon with his two-edged Sword; then indeed he did smile, and look upward; but ’twas the dreadfullest sight that ever I saw. A more unequal match can hardly be: Christian must fight an Angel; but you see The Valiant Man by handling Sword and Shield, Doth make him, tho’ a Dragon, quit the field. So when the Battle was over, Christian said, I will here give thanks to him that hath delivered me out of the mouth of the Lion, to him that did help me against Apollyon. And so he did, saying, Great Beelzebub, the Captain of this Fiend, Design’d my ruin; therefore to this end He sent him harness’d out: and he with rage That hellish was, did fiercely me engage: But blessed Michael helped me, and I By dint of Sword did quickly make him fly. Therefore to him let me give lasting praise, And thank and bless his holy name always. Then there came to him a hand, with some of the leaves of the Tree of Life, the which Christian took, and applied to the wounds that he had received in the Battle, and was healed immediately. He also sat down in that place to eat Bread, and to drink of the Bottle that was given him a little before; so being refreshed, he addressed himself to his Journey, with his Sword drawn in his hand; for he said, I know not but some other Enemy may be at hand. But he met with no other affront from Apollyon quite through this Valley. Now at the end of this Valley was another, called the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and Christian must needs go through it, because the way to the Cœlestial City lay through the midst of it. Now, this Valley is a very solitary place. The Prophet Jeremiah thus describes it: A wilderness, a land of deserts and of pits, a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, a land that no man (but a Christian) passeth through, and where no man dwelt. Now here Christian was worse put to it than in his fight with Apollyon, as by the sequel you shall see. I saw then in my Dream, that when Christian was got to the borders of the Shadow of Death, there met him two men, Children of them that brought up an evil report of the good land, making haste to go back; to whom Christian spake as follows, Chr. Whither are you going? Men. They said, Back, back; and we would have you to do so too, if either life or peace is prized by you. Chr. Why, what’s the matter? said Christian. Men. Matter! said they’; we were going that way as you are going, and went as far as we durst; and indeed we were almost past coming back; for had we gone a little further, we had not been here to bring the news to thee. Chr. But what have you met with? said Christian. Men. Why we were almost in the Valley of the Shadow of Death; but that by good hap we looked before us, and saw the danger before we came to it. Chr. But what have you seen? said Christian. Men. Seen! Why, the Valley itself, which is as dark as pitch; we also saw there the Hobgoblins, Satyrs, and Dragons of the Pit; we heard also in that Valley a continual howling and yelling, as of a people under unutterable misery, who there sat bound in affliction and irons; and over that Valley hangs the discouraging clouds of Confusion; Death also doth always spread his wings over it. In a word, it is every whit dreadful, being utterly without Order. Chr. Then said Christian, I perceive not yet, by what you have said, but that this is my way to the desired Haven. Men. Be it thy way; we will not chose it for ours. So they parted, and Christian went on his way, but still with his Sword drawn in his hand, for fear lest he should be assaulted. I saw then in my Dream, so far as this Valley reached, there was on the right hand a very deep Ditch; that Ditch is it into which the blind have led the blind in all ages, and have both there miserably perished. Again, behold on the left hand, there was a very dangerous Quag, into which, if even good man falls, he can find no bottom for his foot to stand on. Into that Quag King David once did fall, and had no doubt therein been smothered, had not he that is able pluck him out. The path-way was here also exceeding narrow, and therefore good Christian was the more put to it; for when he sought in the dark to shun the ditch on the one hand, he was ready to tip over into the mire on the other; also when he sought to escape the mire, without great carefulness he would be ready to fall into the ditch. Thus he went on, and I heard him here sigh bitterly; for, besides the dangers mentioned above, the path-way was here so dark, that ofttimes, when he lift up his foot to set forward, he knew not where, or upon what he should set it next. Poor man! where art thou now? Thy Day is Night. Good man be not cast down, thou yet art right: Thy way to Heaven lies by the gates of Hell; Chear up, hold out, with thee it shall go well. About the midst of this Valley, I perceived the mouth of Hell to be, and it stood also hard by the wayside. Now thought Christian, what shall I do? And ever and anon the flame and smoke would come out in such abundance, with sparks and hideous noises (things that cared not for Christian’s Sword, as did Apollyon before) that he was forced to put up his Sword, and betake himself to another weapon, called All-prayer. So he cried in my hearing, O Lord I beseech thee deliver my Soul. Thus he went on a great while, yet still the flames would be reaching towards him: Also he heard doleful voices, and rushings to and fro, so that sometimes he thought he should be torn in prices, or trodden down like mire in the Streets. This frightful sight was seen, and these dreadful noises were heard by him for several miles together; and coming to a place where he thought he heard a company of Fiends coming forward to meet him, he stopt, and began to muse what he had best to do. Sometimes he had half a thought to go back; then again he thought he might be half way through the Valley; he remembered also how he had already vanquished many a danger, and that the danger of going back might be much more than for to go forward; so he resolved to go on. Yet the Fiends seemed to come nearer and nearer; but when they were come even almost at him, he cried out with a most vehement voice, I will walk in the strength of the Lord God; so they gave back, and came no further. One thing I would not let slip; I took notice that now poor Christian was so confounded, that he did not know his own voice; and thus I perceived it; Just when he was come over against the mouth of the burning Pit, one of the wicked ones got behind him, and stept up softly to him, and whisperingly suggested many grievous blasphemies to him, which he verily thought had proceeded from his own mind. This put Christian more to it than anything that he met with before, even to think that he should now blaspheme him that he loved so much before; yet, if he could have helped it, he would not have done it; but he had not the discretion neither to stop his ears, nor to know from whence those blasphemies came. When Christian had travelled in this disconsolate condition some considerable time, he thought he heard the voice of a man, going before him saying, Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I will fear none ill, for thou art with me. Then was he glad, and that for these reasons: First, Because he gathered from thence, that some who feared God were in this Valley as well as himself. Secondly, For that he perceived God was with them, though in that dark and dismal state; and why not, thought he, with me? though by reason of the impediment that attends this place, I cannot perceive it. Thirdly, For that he hoped, could he overtake them, to have company by and by. So he went on, and called to him that was before; but he knew not what to answer, for that he also thought himself to be alone. And by and by the day broke; then said Christian, He hath turned the Shadow of Death into the morning. Now morning being come, he looked back, not out of desire to return, but to see, by the light of the day, what hazards he had gone through in the dark. So he saw more perfectly the Ditch that was on the one hand, and the Quag that was on the other; also how narrow the way was which led betwixt them both; also now he saw the Hobgoblins, and Satyrs, and Dragons of the Pit, but all afar off; for after break of day, they came not nigh; yet they were discovered to him, according to that which is written, He discovered deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the Shadow of Death. Now was Christian much affected with his deliverance from all the dangers of his solitary way; which dangers, though he feared them more before, yet he saw them more clearly now, because the light of the day made them conspicuous to him. And about this time the Sun was rising, and this was another mercy to Christian; for you must note, that though the first part of the Valley of the Shadow of Death was dangerous, yet this second part which he was yet to go, was, if possible, far more dangerous: for from the place where he now stood, even to the end of the Valley, the way was all along set so full of Snares, Traps, Gins, and Nets here, and so full of Pits, Pitfalls, deep Holes, and Shelvings down there, that had it now been dark, as it was when he came the first part of the way, had he had a thousand souls, they had in reason been cast away; but as I said, just now the Sun was rising. Then said he, His candle shineth on my head, and by his light I go through darkness. In this light therefore he came to the end of the Valley. Now I saw in my Dream, that at the end of this Valley lay blood, bones, ashes, and mangled bodies of men, even of Pilgrims that had gone this way formerly; and while I was musing what should be the reason, I espied a little before me a Cave, where two Giants, Pope and Pagan, dwelt in old time; by whose power and tyranny the men whose bones, blood, ashes, &c. lay there, were cruelly put to death. But by this place Christian went without much danger, whereat I somewhat wondered; but I have learnt since, that Pagan has been dead many a day; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy, and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his Cave’s mouth, grinning at Pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails, because he cannot come to them. So I saw that Christian went on his way; yet at the sight of the Old Man that sat in the mouth of the Cave, he could not tell what to think, specially because he spake to him, though he could not go after him, saying, You will never mend till more of you be burned: But he held his peace, and set a good face on’t, and so went by and catcht no hurt. Then sang Christian, O world of wonders! (I can say no less) That I should be preserv’d in that distress That I have met with here! O blessed be That hand that from it hath delivered me! Dangers in darkness, Devils, Hell, and Sin, Did compass me, while I this Vale was in: Yea, Snares, and Pits, and Traps, and Nets did lie My path about, that worthless silly I Might have been catch’d, intangled, and cast down; But since I live, let Jesus wear the Crown. 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__label__wiki	0.938104	0.938104	Horror horse injury sparks call for fireworks ban by Neil Clarkson The injuries suffered by the arabian stallion Prestige after he was spooked by fireworks last week. A woman whose Arab stallion suffered a terrible side wound on Guy Fawkes night says it is time to ban fireworks. Jackie Chamberlain wants to start a nationwide petition to bring an end to the fireworks that terrify horses, other farm animals and pets around the country. Her stallion, Prestige, suffered a massive wound to his side when he smashed his way through a post-and-rail fence to escape fireworks last Thursday on Guy Fawkes night, probably just after nightfall. Jackie told Horsetalk that Prestige, 17, is her quietest horse. "He ended up out on the busy Morrinsville/Hamilton Highway. "He found his way into someone's paddock 1 kilometre down the road and was discovered there early the next morning. Luckily, these people had the good sense to call a vet and go searching for the owner." The attending vet told Jackie that Prestige will take many months to heal. Dying flesh had to be stripped from the wound. Less than a centimetre of flesh now covers the vital organs in the area. Jackie says it is time for a ban. She says Guy Fawkes is a horror for both animals and animal lovers of any type. "I wonder how many others there are," she said, referring to the injury suffered by Prestige. "It's not just horses. It's all animals. Prestige just days before the accident. "I know we have been able to quell the amount of fireworks that have been sold, but even now we are still hearing them." Jackie, who runs Butterbur Stud, said Prestige grazed on a leased block at Newstead, just outside Hamilton. He has lived there for four years. The horses that graze there are checked up to three times a day. The area is becoming increasingly built up. Jackie herself lives near Cambridge, on a dairy farm, and has about eight horses in total. She believes fireworks should be limited to public displays and that private sales should be banned once and for all. She said she would appreciate any support in her efforts. She says fireworks terrify cats and dogs, some of whom are prescibed valium to see them through the ordeal. As for Prestige, he is on the home block for his long recuperation. Jackie says he was an endurance horse who has done his share of community work. For several years she rode him around their Cambridge neighbourhood to collect for the IHC. Jackie Chamberlain can be contacted on 07 8273205 or mobile 029 8273200, or by email at jaketsbutterbur@yahoo.co.nz. Sign up for Horsetalk's eNews	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line587
__label__cc	0.667012	0.332988	Where our Scholars come from Where our Scholars visit HIV Research Trust Scholarships Joep Lange Institute Scholarship ViiV Healthcare Scholarships Scholar Archive Meet Our Scholars Glasgow Scholars Sign up here to be kept updated via email. Pauline Byakika-Kibwika, winner of the HIVRT alumni scholarship to attend the HIV Drug Therapy Congress, Glasgow, 2018. HIV Research Trust alumni were asked to complete a survey describing how their HIVRT scholarship had impacted their professional and academic lives allowing Trustees to better understand how it affected patient outcomes in the scholar’s home setting. The Trustees assessed all survey responses and selected Pauline to receive the above award. Her story is summarised below. In 2010 Pauline attended a placement at Mahidol University, Thailand to obtain clinical pharmacology analytical skills to assist her in completing her PhD. Pauline’s PhD work contributed to the current knowledge on treatment of malaria in HIV-infected patients who are also receiving antiretroviral treatment. This work has been utilised and referenced by the World Health Organization in the current policy on treatment of malaria in HIV-infected individuals. After completion of her PhD, she was promoted to Associate Professor and currently heads the Infectious Diseases Unit at the Department of Medicine of Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda where they care for those who are affected with HIV and opportunistic infections - more than 200 HIV-infected inpatients and over 300 outpatients are seen each month. Pauline is also the Director of the Research Directorate at Makerere where her responsibilities include reviewing and guiding the research framework at the Department of Medicine and supervising Masters and PhD students’ research projects. Gladys Njeri Macharia Job Title Research Officer Date of Scholarship 20 June -18 August 2012 Host Institution The Neutralizing Antibody Centre at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA Scholarship Title Defining the desired antibody response to HIV I spent two months at the IAVI's neutralizing antibody center learning assays related to characterization of antibody function. In the initial phase, I learnt how to evaluate sera from chronic HIV-1 patients for broad neutralization of HIV-1. As part of the neutralization assay I also learnt how to prepare HIV-1 mutant pseudoviruses by site directed mutagenesis of the HIV-1 envelope, and thereafter using the mutated envelop to transfect a permissive cell line that would in turn generate the desired HIV-1 mutants. Other antibody characterization assays that I learnt include a binding assay and a capture assay that can be utilized to map the epitopes against which a HIV response is directed. In addition, I learnt an Antibody Dependent Cellular Cytotoxicity (ADCC) assay to evaluate the Fc-R mediated effector functions of an antibody. Finally, I received level-3 biosafety lab training. The process of learning these assays involved learning basic lab techniques such as maintenance of a pure cell line, extraction of DNA, transformation, and production and purification of the HIV-1 protein gp140. These are all techniques that I will employ to characterize antibodies in the sera of a HIV exposed but seronegative cohort with respect to their ability to neutralise virus or to mediate antibody-mediated cellular cytotoxicity, which may explain their protection from HIV infection despite multiple exposures. These assays were previously not established at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and will be of interest not just to myself but also to other HIV immunologists at Kilifi. The Neutralising Antibody Centre has a large team of HIV scientists, including structural and computational biologists, immunologists and protein chemists that investigate the function of HIV-specific antibodies with the aim to devise an effective AIDS vaccine. Through out my training, I met several of these scientists. I learnt about their research, and the approach that they are taking to define the immune response that an effective vaccine needs to elicit, and to design an immunogen that would be capable of eliciting such responses. The training that I received not only equipped me with valuable immunology and molecular biology techniques but also enriched my understanding of immunity, and of the current trends in research within HIV immunology. TIMELINE FOR 2020 SCHOLARSHIPS 1st July 2019: Applications Open 30th Sept 2019: Applications Close 2nd December 2019: Scholarships announced If you are interested in applying for a scholarship find out more below: AM I ELIGIBLE TO APPLY? 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__label__wiki	0.644801	0.644801	Information retrieval apparatus and interface for retrieval of mapping information utilizing hand-drawn retrieval requests An interface, adapted for receiving information composed of symbols, characters, and diagrams representing a spatial positional relationship and used as a retrieval request, comprises an entry device for entering a two-dimensional image, and a retrieval request interpreting device for recognizing elements forming the entered image, such as symbols, characters, and diagrams, and determining a two-dimensional spatial relationship between elements so as to determine retrieval conditions. Information retrieval is executed on the basis of the retrieval conditions determined by the retrieval request interpreting device. Thus, a user is allowed to enter a retrieval request in two-dimensional image form, namely, in an easily intelligible form and in a timesaving manner. This enables makes it possible to retrieve easily sophisticated information as well. Okazaki, Akio (Yokohama, JP) Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Kawasaki, JP) 345/173, 382/113, 434/307R, 434/365, 707/999.004, 707/E17.022, 707/E17.024, 707/E17.026, 715/839, 715/863 G06F17/30; G06F17/50; (IPC1-7): G06F3/14 364/518-523, 395/161, 395/155, 340/706, 340/709, 382/13, 382/57 4949388 Method and apparatus for recognition of graphic symbols 1990-08-14 Bhaskaran 364/518 Other References: Tang, G. Y., "A Management System for an Integrated Database of Pictures and Alphanumerical Data", Computer Graphics and Image Processing, vol. 16, 1981, pp. 270-286. Grosky, W. I., "Toward a Data Model for Integrated Pictorial Databases", Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, vol. 25, 1984, pp. 371-382. Clark, David L. Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt Parent Case Data: This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/470,409, filed on Jan. 29, 1990 now abandoned, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/169,479, filed on Mar. 17, 1988, now abandoned. 1. An information retrieval apparatus for retrieving a map, comprising: an interface for entering a hand-drawn retrieval request, said hand-drawn retrieval request being formed of an object to be retrieved and other elements which are represented by at least a hand-drawn diagram, and representing a spatial positional relationship between the object and the other elements, said hand-drawn diagram comprising characters, a mark and a line, said characters representing at least one of names associated with the other elements and designations representing a direction of the hand-drawn diagram and a unit distance of the hand-drawn diagram, said mark being associated with the object and the other elements, said line being associated with the other elements and a length of the unit distance, said interface comprising entry means for entering said hand-drawn retrieval request, and retrieval request interpreting means for receiving said hand-drawn retrieval request, collating the object and the other elements in the hand-drawn diagram with a words dictionary and interpreting the spatial positional relationship between said object and said other elements based on coordinates of the object and the other elements to form a retrieval condition; data base means for storing specific map data related to said object and said other elements; retrieval executing means for executing an information retrieval based on said retrieval condition formed by said retrieval request interpreting means and the specific map data of said data base means, and outputting a desired retrieval result of the map around the object to be retrieved; and display means for displaying the desired retrieval result. 2. An information retrieval apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said entry means has symbol menus including plural selectable symbols by which said retrieval request can be formed by menu selection and means for transmitting a code for each selected symbol to said retrieval request interpreting means; and said retrieval request interpreting means includes means for recognizing said retrieval request on the basis of the code. 3. An information retrieval apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said entry means comprises a tablet device for enabling entry of hand-drawn elements; and said retrieval request interpreting means comprises recognizing means for recognizing said hand-drawn elements. 4. An information retrieval apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said retrieval request interpreting means forms a retrieval table as the retrieval condition. 5. An information retrieval apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said retrieval request interpreting means forms retrieval commands in language form as the retrieval condition. 6. A map retrieval interface for entering a hand-drawn retrieval request of the map, said retrieval request being formed of an object to be retrieved and other elements which are represented by at least a hand-drawn diagram, and representing a spatial positional relationship between the object and the other elements, said hand-drawn diagram comprising characters, a mark and a line, said characters representing at least one of names associated with the other elements and designations representing a direction of the hand-drawn diagram and a unit distance of the hand-drawn diagram, said mark being associated with the object and the other elements, said line being associated with the other elements and a length of the unit distance, the interface comprising: entry means for entering said hand-drawn retrieval request; and retrieval table forming means for receiving said hand-drawn retrieval request, collating the object and the other elements in the hand-drawn diagram with a words dictionary and interpreting the spatial positional relationship between said object and said other elements based on coordinates of the object and the other elements to form a retrieval table representing said spatial positional relationship between said object and said other elements. 7. An information retrieval interface according to claim 6, wherein said entry means has symbol menus including plural selectable symbols by which said retrieval request can be formed by menu selection and means for transmitting a code for each selected symbol to said retrieval table forming means; and said retrieval table forming means includes means for recognizing said retrieval request on the basis of the code. 8. An information retrieval apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said entry means comprises a tablet device for enabling entry of hand-drawn elements; and said retrieval table forming means comprises recognizing means for recognizing said hand-drawn elements. 9. An information retrieval apparatus comprising: entry means for entering a hand-drawn retrieval request, said hand-drawn retrieval request formed of an object to be retrieved and other elements which are represented by at least a hand-drawn diagram, said hand-drawn diagram comprising characters, a mark and a line, said characters representing names associated with the other elements and designators representing a direction of the hand-drawn diagram and a unit distance of the hand-drawn diagram, said mark being associated with the object and the other elements, said line being associated with the other elements and a length of the unit distance; retrieval request interpreting means for receiving said hand-drawn retrieval request, collating the object and the other elements in the hand-drawn diagram with a words dictionary and interpreting a spatial positional relationship between said object and said other elements based on coordinates of the object and the other elements; retrieval condition forming means for forming a retrieval condition based on said spatial positional relationship interpreted by said retrieval request interpreting means; data base means for storing specific data related to said object and said other elements; retrieval executing means for executing an information retrieval based on said retrieval condition formed by said retrieval condition forming means and the specific data of said data base means, and outputting a desired retrieval result; and This invention relates to an information retrieval apparatus and an interface for information retrieval for use in a data base system, a file system, and a dictionary retrieval system. More specifically, this invention relates to an information retrieval apparatus and an information retrieval interface for handling requests for retrieving two-dimensional information such as maps, drawings of facilities, electric circuit diagrams, and chemical constitutional formulas. When information retrieval requests are entered in a data base storing image information such as drawings of facilities, electric circuit diagrams, and medical diagnostic drawings, such requests are made not only by the file name of a drawing or diagram but also by specifying the name of an element contained in a given drawing or the spatial arrangement of several such elements. For example, in the case of electric circuit diagrams, a request is made for retrieving a circuit diagram including a circuit in which a two-input NAND symbol and a three-input OR symbol are positioned at "A" in the diagram and interconnected in a relation like "B". In the case of maps, for example, a request is made for retrieving a house in which its name is "A", a "national route" and a "local route" run in its neighborhood, they intersect like "B", there is a park and a hospital at a distance of approximately "D" from the routes in the direction of "C", and it is in a positional relation of "E" with respect to these elements. Conventionally, such retrieval is performed on the basis of a request using a command in general language form or a relational query language of a Special list form (refer to NING SAN CHANG and KING SUN FU: "Query-by-Pictorial-Example" IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering, vol. SE-6, No. 6, pp 519-524, November 1980.) This special type of retrieval language is designed on the basis of an analysis of retrieval requests which are expected to be made. However, in the method of entering retrieval requests in accordance with the retrieval languages having one-dimensional representation system, users must enter in detail a spatial and topological positional relationship between elements in accordance with many retrieval languages, in order to represent a two-dimensional positional relationship between plural elements forming image information. Thus, many data entries become needed for a retrieval request, degrading the processing efficiency. Moreover, the retrieval language itself is complicated. Therefore, the conventional retrieval-request entry method is difficult to use. It is an object of this invention to provide an interface for information retrieval which enables users to simply and efficiently enter an information retrieval request based on a spatial and topological relationship between elements forming two-dimensional information. It is another object of this invention to provide an information retrieval apparatus for efficiently retrieving two-dimensional information. According to an aspect of this invention there is provided an information retrieval apparatus comprising entry means for entering an entry image for the retrieval request formed of elements of symbols, characters, diagrams, or the like; and retrieval request interpreting means for recognizing each of elements forming the entry image and obtaining a two-dimensional relationship between elements so as to determine retrieval conditions; and retrieval executing means for executing the retrieval of information which meets the retrieval conditions determined by the retrieval request interpreting means. According to another aspect of this invention there is provided an information retrieval interface comprising entry means for entering an entry image for the retrieval request formed of elements of symbols, characters, diagrams, or the like; and retrieval table forming means for recognizing each of the elements forming the entry image and obtaining a two-dimensional relationship between elements so as to form a retrieval table representing a positional relationship between elements. This invention can be more fully understood from the detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which: FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a data base system according to an embodiment of this invention; FIG. 2 is a plan view of the tablet used in the data base system of FIG. 1; FIG. 3 is a main flowchart of the control processor of the data base system; FIG. 4A is a flowchart for processing retrieval-request entries in the main flowchart; FIG. 4B is a flowchart for processing symbol entries in the retrieval-request-entry processing flowchart; FIG. 4C is a flowchart for processing character entries in the retrievai-request-entry processing flowchart; FIG. 4D is a flowchart for processing diagram entries in the retrieval-request-entry processing flowchart; FIG. 5 shows an example of a retrieval request diagram for electric circuit diagrams; FIG. 6 is a flowchart for interpreting the retrieval request diagram for electric circuit diagrams; FIG. 7 shows a retrieval table obtained by the interpreting process; FIG. 8 shows tables stored in a data base for electric circuit diagrams to be examined by the retrieval table; FIG. 9 is a flowchart for the retrieval execution process performed by the retrieval executing processor in the data base system using the retrieval table; FIG. 10 shows an example of a retrieval request drawing for maps; FIG. 11 is a flowchart for interpreting the map-retrieval request drawing; FIG. 12 shows a retrieval table obtained by the interpreting process; FIG. 13 shows tables stored in a map data base to be examined by the retrieval table; FIGS. 14A and 14B show a flowchart for the retrieval execution process performed by the retrieval executing processor in the data base system on the basis of the retrieval table; FIGS. 15A and 15B show interpretive commands in an information retrieval system according to another embodiment of this invention, which result from the interpretation of a retrieval request diagram or drawing; FIG. 16 is a block diagram of a data base system according to still another embodiment of this invention; FIG. 17 is a flowchart for retrieval processing performed by a dictionary retrieval system according to a further embodiment of this invention; and FIG. 18 shows a data structure in a keyword dictionary used in the dictionary retrieval system. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a data base system embodying this invention. The data base system is composed of a data base 1 for storing data to be retrieved, and an information retrieval unit 2 for retrieving data in data base 1. Information retrieval unit 2 is composed of an information retrieval interface 3 responsive to a retrieval request based on two-dimensional drawing information to determine retrieval conditions, a retrieval executing processor 4 for executing the retrieval of data in data base 1 in accordance with the retrieval conditions, and a disk interface 5 for transferring data between processor 4 and data base 1. The arrangement of information retrieval interface 3 will described below. A tablet device 11 and a keyboard 12 constitute input or entry means used by user for entering an input drawing for a retrieval request. Tablet device 11 is adapted for entering a sketch drawn by hand as a retrieval request. The entered retrieval request is read into a control processor 15 via a tablet interface 13 or a keyboard interface 14. An on-line diagram/character (D/C) recognition module 16 is coupled to control processor 15. Control processor 15 drives the module and receives the recognition results of the retrieval request therefrom to send them to a display device 18 via a display controller 17. When instructed by user to execute the retrieval via tablet device 11, control processor 15 refers to a words dictionary (ROM) 19 as needed, and interprets the retrieval request so far entered to feed the interpretive result to retrieval executing processor 4. Thus, control processor 15, D/C recognition module 16 and words dictionary 19 form retrieval-request interpreting means. Retrieval executing processor 4 searches data base 1 through disk interface 5 in accordance with the interpretive result. Data base 1 is an external file storage unit such as a magnetic disk unit or an optical disk unit in which large amounts of drawing information are stored for retrieval. The final information retrieved from data base 1 is fed to control processor 15. Control processor 15 transfers the retrieved information via display controller 17 to display device 18 which displays the retrieved information. FIG. 2 shows, by way of example, tablet menus arranged on tablet device 11. User can advance a retrieval process by menu selection. The functions of the tablet menus will be described later. It is to be noted that entry means like tablet device 11 may be formed by displaying the drawing of FIG. 2 on the screen of display device 18. In this case, the menu selection can be performed by the use of a pointing device such as a mouse. FIG. 3 is a flowchart for the processing to be executed by control processor 15. Upon receipt of a retrieval request from tablet device 11 or keyboard 12 in step 21, control processor 15 interprets the retrieval request in step 22, and then feeds the interpretive result to retrieval executing processor 4 in step 23. When retrieval executing processor 4 completes the retrieval in step 24 control processor 15 receives the retrieved information from retrieval executing processor 4 and displays it in step 26. The detailed process for receiving input information from tablet device 11 or keyboard 12 in step 21 is represented in FIGS. 4A through 4D. As shown in FIG. 4A, when selecting any key in "Ope. Menu" of FIG. 2 in step 31 user can set the operation to a desired mode. That is, when "Symb. Input" is chosen in step 32 the symbol entry process is executed in step 33. Owing to the symbol entry process the specified symbol in the symbol menu is displayed at the specified position, and then stored as shown in FIG. 4B. When "Char. Input" is selected in step 34 the characterizing entry process is executed in step 35. In the character-string entry process, as shown in FIG. 4C, characters hand-written on the input plate of tablet device 11 are entered for each of strokes of one character to be recognized by on-line D/C recognition module 16, and the recognized characters are displayed at the position corresponding to the writing position. The recognized character string and the position thereof are stored. When "Diag. Input" is selected in step 36 the diagram input process is executed in step 37. In the diagram input process, as shown in FIG. 4D, while a pen is put down on the input plate of tablet device 11 the coordinates of positions pointed out by the pen are read at predetermined time intervals so that a diagram formed of a train of coordinates is displayed and stored. When "Retr. Start" is specified in step 38 the operation advances to the process for interpreting the entered retrieval request as shown at (2). When "Retr. End" is selected in step 39 the process for completing the retrieval is executed as shown at (*). Finally, when another key is specified in step 40 another process is executed in step 41. The "Cancel" key in the "Ope. Menu" is used for undoing the most recent operation, and the "Delete" key for undoing all the operations which have been performed, namely, for clearing the retrieval request entry. The "CR" key is used for specifying the end of the "Char. Input" operation. The keys in the "Symbol Menu" each correspond to the symbol of a element in a map or circuit diagram, and can be selected in the "Symb. Input" mode only. The keys in the "Edit Menu" can be selected during the "Char. Input" mode only. The "Next" key is used for specifying one out of some character candidates for recognition. The "Del", "Ins", and "Rep" keys are adapted for deieting, inserting, and replacing a character string entered, respectively The "" and "➝" keys are used for specifying the movement of a cursor in a specified direction. When user enters a retrieval request through operations of the keys the entered information is visually displayed by display device 18 for confirmation. To revise the displayed information user can operate a key or keys in the "Edit Menu" or the "Cancel" or "Delete" key in the "Ope. Menu". Thus, when the two-dimensional image information for a retrieval request is formed, the process (the step 22 in FIG. 3) for interpreting the retrieval request is performed by specifying the "Retr. Start." FIG. 5 through FIG. 9 show an example of retrieval for an electric circuit diagram. In FIG. 5 there is shown an entered image of an electric circuit to be retrieved. A "two-input AND" and a "three-input OR" are entered by operating the symbol menu, and the connection lines are entered by hand-writing operation on the tablet in the "diagram input" mode. FIG. 6 shows in detail the process (step 22 in FIG. 3) for interpreting the retrieval request from the electric circuit image of FIG. 5. First, in step 61, the coordinates of the center of each symbol are fit to the standard coordinates by normalization processing. A relationship of interconnection between the symbols is examined in step 62. The positions of bends (turning points) in a connection line between the symbols are extracted in step 63. And, in step 64, the center coordinates of the symbols, the relation of interconnection of the symbols, and the bend positions of the connection line between the symbols are provided for forming predetermined retrieval commands constituting logical conditions for retrieval, e.g. a retrieval table. The thus formed retrieval table is shown in FIG. 7. The table has the items of ID No., ELEMENT, POSITION, and CONNECTION as shown. In the item ELEMENT the names of elements (code information) included in the retrieval request are recorded. The center coordinates of each element are recorded in the item POSITION, and the element ID Nos. connecting with input terminals and an output terminal of each element are recorded in the item CONNECTION. In this example, the number of input terminals that can be recorded is set at five, and the output terminal number is set at one. In data base 1, on the other hand, electric circuit diagram data is stored in such a format as shown in FIG. 8. The electric circuit data of such a format is formed for each of electric circuit diagrams. The stored data is arranged in table form for each of elements such as "AND", "OR", "NAND", "NOR", and "TURNING POINT." Each data table has the items of ID No., ELEMENT, POSITION, and CONNECTION like the retrieval table. The relationship of connection of each element to another element is indicated by a pointer recorded in the item CONNECTION. Upon receiving the retrieval table from interface 3, retrieval executing processor 4 searches all the diagram data stored in data base 1 from diagram to diagram in accordance with the process as shown in FIG. 9. More specifically, processor 4 fetches the No. 1 element and the position thereof in the retrieval table in step 71, in this example, "AND" and X1, Y1 so as to fetch all elements, as candidates, included in a small region centered at the position (X1, Y1) from a table corresponding to the No. 1 element ("AND" table) in the diagram data of interest. A set of fetched elements is defined as S(1) in step 72. If S(1) is null in step 73, then it is decided in step 74 that the diagram data does not meet the retrieval conditions, thus stopping the processing. If S(1) is not null, on the other hand, the processor performs the same processing for the next No. 2 element. This processing is performed for all elements (N; 4 in this example) in the retrieval table (steps 75, 76, 77). After sets s(1), S(2), . . . , S(N) have been found for each element, processor 4 finds a set of elements which meets the condition of CONNECTION in the retrieval table. The set is defined as SS in step 77. If SS is null in step 79, then it is decided that the diagram does not meet the retrieval conditions, while if SS is not null in step 79, then the diagram is output as the retrieval result. Thus, the diagram meeting the conditions in the retrieval table is searched for. The result of retrieval is displayed on display device 18 through processor 15. FIG. 10 through FIG. 14 show an example of map retrieval. In FIG. 10 there is shown an entry image of a map to be retrieved. Character strings such as "north", "park", "house", "local route", "national route", "100 m" and "?" are entered in the characterizing entry mode. The symbol " " standing for a hospital is entered in the symbol entry mode, while others are entered in the diagram entry mode. FIG. 11 is a flowchart of the process for interpreting a map retrieval request. The interpreting process is comprised of calculating in step 81 the shortest distance between elements; collating in step 82 character strings with the words dictionary to interpret them; establishing in step 83 a correspondence between the most closely related character string and lines and symbol "?"; determining in step 84 that the character string corresponding to the "?" is to be retrieved; determining in step 85 the direction on the map; determining in step 86 the distance on the map; and finding in step 87 a positional relationship between the object to be retrieved and map elements in the neighborhood thereof to form a retrieval table. An example of the retrieval table thus obtained is shown in FIG. 12. The table has the items of "object for retrieval", "near point elements" and "near line elements." For the near point elements, at most, three elements can be recorded, while for the near line elements, at most, two elements can be recorded. For each of the point elements, "element name", "direction", and "distance" are recorded. On the other hand, for each line element, "element name", "direction for shortest distance", and "Shortest distance" are recorded. Practically, the data is recorded in coded form in each item of the table. In data base 1, map data is stored in such a format as shown in FIG. 13. The map data of such a format is formed for each Of maps. The stored data is arranged in table form for each of elements such as house, hospital, park, national route, and local route. Each table for point element has items of ID No., and POSITION, while each table for line element has items of ID No., and a train of position coordinates. Upon receipt of the retrieval table from interface 3, retrieval executing processor 4 searches all the map data stored in data base 1 from map to map in accordance with the process shown in FIGS. 14A and 14B. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 14A, processor 4 fetches in step 91 a first near point element in the retrieval table for a decision in step 92 as to whether it is recorded or not. If it is not recorded, then line element processing is performed. If it is recorded, processor 4 fetches the first point element (NP(1); "park" in this example), and then fetches No. 1 position data P(1, 1) from a table (park table) corresponding to the point element in map data of interest in steps 93 and 94. Elements, which are positioned within a predetermined region centered at a point distance data (100 m) apart from the position data P(1, 1) in the opposite direction to the direction (north west) of NP(1) recorded in the retrieval table, are extracted from the table (house table) for the same element as the retrieval object in step 95. The extracted elements define a set S(1, 1). If S(1, 1) is null in step 96, it is decided that the map data does not meet the retrieval conditions, thereby terminating the process in step 97 of FIG. 15B. If S(1, 1) is not null, on the other hand, processor 4 performs the same processing for other position data P(1, 2), P(1, 3), P(1, n) in the table for NP(1) in steps 98 and 99. This processing is performed for all the recorded point elements in steps 100 and 101. After the completion of the process for the point elements the same process is performed for line elements in steps 102 through 110 shown in FIG. 14B. After sets S(1, J), S(2, J), S(5, J) have been found for each element, processor 4 extracts elements common to the sets which are not null. The set of the extracted elements is defined as SC in step 111. If SC is null in step 112 it is decided in step 97 that the map does not meet the retrieval conditions, while if SC is not null the map is output as the retrieval result in step 113. Thus, the map meeting the retrieval conditions is searched for. The retrieval result is displayed by display device 18 through control processor 15. According to the retrieval processing as described above, a retrieval request can be entered in a two-dimensional image. Namely, user can enter a retrieval request in an intelligible form and in a timesaving manner. Besides, according to the apparatus as described above, a retrieval table adapted for the storage form of the data base is formed on the basis of a sketch so that an efficient retrieval can be performed. The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. FIGS. 15A and 15B each show an example of retrieval commands obtained by a retrieval language as the result of interpretation of the sketch obtained in step 22 of FIG. 3. In the case of the electric circuit sketch of FIG. 5, such retrieval conditions as shown in FIG. 15A are obtained. For the map sketch shown in FIG. 10, on the other hand, such retrieval conditions as shown in FIG. 15B are obtained. Once such retrieval conditions are formed, subsequent retrieval processing will be performed in a general manner. In interpreting a sketch, not only the relationship between the shortest distance and the direction but also an intersectional relationship between lines and a topological relationship such as space division by lines can be introduced. In this case, the condition (4) in FIG. 15B will be "a hospital is 200 m to the east thereof with the national route between", and a condition (5) is added in which the national route and the local route intersects at a point, and the intersection is 100 m to the south east of the house for retrieval. With the above embodiments the symbol entry method depends on menus selection system. Alternatively, the entry method may be of an on-line image recognition type as in characters. In this case, as shown in FIG. 16, the system comprises an on-line recognition module 160 adapted for recognizing hand-drawn symbols, characters, and diagrams. In the retrieval of electric circuit diagrams a partial circuit pattern is entered so as to retrieve a circuit diagram which includes the circuit pattern partially. However, the present invention is not limited to the retrieval of diagrams in particular. That is, the present invention may be applied to dictionary retrieval by handling a sketch as a two-dimensional keyword, for example. In FIG. 17 there is shown an example of a process for dictionary retrieval. First, a sketch is interpreted to obtain an interpretive table in step 121. A comparison is made between the interpretive table and a keyword table in step 122. The keyword table establishes a correspondence between table of interpretive result and corresponding information by the use of pointers as shown in FIG. 18, for example. As a result information is structured. The tables of interpretive result are read out in sequence from ID No. 1 of the keyword table, and are compared with the interpretive table. As a result of the comparison, if a coincidence occurs in step 123, then the corresponding information in the keyword table is output as the retrieval result in step 124. If no coincidence occurs in step 123, then "no result of retrieval" is displayed in step 125. Such dictionary retrieval can be applied to retrieval two-dimensional information based on chemical constitutional formulas, for example. <- Previous Patent (Pick data queue for ...) \| Next Patent (Dynamic video RAM in...) ->	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line593
__label__wiki	0.736558	0.736558	Segmented Balloon Expandable Stent Graft With Reduced Foreshortening A segmented balloon expandable stent graft includes a graft material and a plurality of cylindrical stent elements coupled to the graft material. The plurality of cylindrical stent elements are plastically deformable when expanded from a radially compressed configuration to a radially expanded configuration. The plurality of cylindrical stent elements includes a first end stent element, a second end stent element, and a plurality of middle stent elements. The first and second end stent elements are independent of the plurality of middle stent elements. The first and second end stent elements are more resistant to radial expansion than the plurality of middle stent elements such that the plurality of middle stent elements plastically deform from the radially compressed configuration to the radially expanded configuration when inflated by a balloon prior the first and second end stent elements. Argentine, Jeffery (Petaluma, CA, US) Medtronic Vascular, Inc. 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TON, MARTIN TRUYEN Medtronic Vascular - APV Division (c/o IP Legal Department 3576 Unocal Place Santa Rosa CA 95403) 1. A balloon expandable stent graft comprising: a graft material of generally tubular configuration; and a plurality of cylindrical stent elements coupled to the graft material, wherein the plurality of cylindrical stent elements are plastically deformable when expanded from a radially compressed configuration to a radially expanded configuration, wherein the plurality of cylindrical stent elements include, a first end stent element disposed adjacent a first end of the graft material; a second end stent element disposed adjacent a second end of the graft material; and a plurality of middle stent elements disposed between the first end stent element and the second end stent element, wherein the first end stent element is independent of the plurality of middle stent elements and the second end stent element is independent of the plurality of middle stent elements, and wherein the first end stent element and the second end stent element are more resistant to radial expansion than the plurality of middle stent elements such that the plurality of middle stent elements plastically deform from the radially compressed configuration to the radially expanded configuration when inflated by a balloon prior the first end stent element and the second end stent element. 2. The balloon expandable stent graft of claim 1, wherein the first end stent element and the second end stent element are at least twice as resistant to radial expansion as the middle stent elements. 3. The balloon expandable stent graft of claim 1, wherein the first end stent element and the second end stent element are at least three times as resistant to radial expansion as the middle stent elements. 4. The balloon expandable stent graft of claim 1, wherein the plurality of middle stent elements are independent of each other. 5. The balloon expandable stent graft of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of cylindrical stent elements comprises a ring having a plurality of struts and a plurality of crowns connecting the struts to each other. 6. The balloon expandable stent graft of claim 5, wherein the struts of the first end stent element and the struts of the second end stent element are thicker than the struts of the plurality of middle stent elements. 7. The balloon expandable stent graft of claim 6, wherein the crowns of the first end stent element and the crowns of the second end stent element are thicker than the crowns of the plurality of middle stent elements. 9. A method of deploying a stent graft in a vessel comprising the steps of: delivering the stent graft to a site within the vessel with the stent graft in a radially compressed configuration, wherein the stent graft includes a first end portion, a second end portion, and a middle portion disposed between the first end portion and the second end portion, the stent graft comprising a graft material and a plurality of independent stent elements coupled to the graft material; and radially expanding the stent graft by applying a substantially uniform radial pressure to the stent graft, wherein the independent stent elements disposed at the first end portion of the stent graft and the independent stent elements disposed at the second end portion of the stent graft expand at a higher radial pressure than the independent stent elements disposed at the middle portion of the stent graft such that the middle portion of the stent graft expands before first end portion and the second end portion. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of radially expanding the stent graft comprises inflation a balloon disposed within a lumen of the stent graft. 11. The method of claim 10, wherein the balloon is inflated to a first pressure such that the middle portion of the stent graft expands while the first end portion and the second end portion do not expand, wherein the balloon continues to be inflated to a second pressure such that the first end portion and the second end portion expand. 12. The method of claim 11, wherein the second pressure is at least twice the first pressure. 13. The method of claim 11, wherein the second pressure is at least three times the first pressure. 14. The method of claim 9, wherein each of the plurality of independent stent elements comprises a ring having a plurality of struts and a plurality of crowns connecting the struts to each other. 15. The method of claim 14, wherein the struts of the independent stent elements at the first end portion and the struts of the independent stent elements at the second end portion are thicker than the struts of the independent stent elements at the middle portion. 16. The method of claim 15, wherein the crowns of the independent stent elements at the first end portion and the crowns of the independent stent elements at the second end portion are thicker than the crowns of the independent stent elements at the middle portion. 17. The method of claim 9, wherein the crowns of the independent stent elements at the first end portion and the crowns of the independent stent elements at the second end portion are thicker than the crowns of the independent stent elements at the middle portion. The present invention relates generally to a segmented balloon expandable stent with reduced foreshortening and a method for deployed such a segmented balloon expandable stent graft. Tubular prostheses, such as stents, grafts, and stent-grafts are known for treating abnormalities in various passageways of the human body. In vascular applications, these devices often are used to replace or bypass occluded, diseased or damaged blood vessels such as stenotic or aneurysmal vessels. For example, it is well known to use stent-grafts of a biocompatible graft material supported by a framework, for e.g., one or more stent or stent-like structures, to treat or isolate aneurysms. The framework provides mechanical support and the graft material or liner provides a blood barrier. When implanting a stent-graft, the stent-graft typically is placed so that one end of the stent-graft is situated proximal to or upstream of the diseased portion of the vessel and the other end of the stent-graft is situated distal to or downstream of the diseased portion of the vessel. In this manner, the stent-graft extends through and spans the aneurysmal sac and extends beyond the proximal and distal ends thereof to replace or bypass the dilated wall. Such tubular prostheses are known to be implanted in either an open surgical procedure or by a minimally invasive endovascular/endoluminal approach. Minimally invasive endovascular stent-grafts for use in treating aneurysms are often preferred over traditional open surgery techniques where the diseased vessel is surgically opened, and a graft is sutured into position bypassing the aneurysm. The endovascular approach generally involves opening a vein or artery with a needle, inserting a guidewire into the vein or artery through the lumen of the needle, withdrawing the needle, inserting over the guidewire a dilator located inside an associated sheath introducer having a hemostasis valve, removing the dilator and inserting a delivery catheter through the hemostasis valve and sheath introducer into the blood vessel. The delivery catheter with the stent-graft secured therein may then be routed through the vasculature to the target site. For example, a stent-graft delivery catheter loaded with a stent-graft can be percutaneously introduced into the vasculature, for e.g., into a femoral artery, and the stent-graft delivered endovascularly across an aneurysm where it is then deployed. Specialized endovascular stent-grafts have been developed for the treatment of thoracic aortic aneurysms. A thoracic aortic aneurysm a bulge that forms in the wall of the aorta in the area of the aortic arch or just below the aortic arch. Emanating from the aortic arch are three branch arteries, the innominate or brachiocephalic artery, the left common carotid artery, and the left subclavian artery. In some cases, an aneurysm in the aortic arch may extend into one of the branch arteries, or the aneurysm is located in the arch such that a main stent graft used to bypass the aneurysm will block access to the one or more of the branch arteries. Accordingly, a branch stent graft may extend through a fenestration in the main stent graft and extend into the branch artery. However, the aortic arch represents a challenging design environment due to a significant amount of cardiac and respiratory movement. Such movement requires a branch stent graft with significant flexibility and durability to withstand such movement over an extended period of time. Further, in some cases, the fenestration of the main stent graft is not aligned with the branch artery. In such cases, the branch stent graft extends from the fenestration in the main stent graft, extends within the aorta for a short distance, and then extends into the branch artery (offset configuration). In such situations, significant flexibility is required and sufficient radial force to maintain the branch stent graft open against the force of the main stent graft while in the aorta. Currently there are no commercially available branch stent grafts specifically designed for the aortic arch. Branch stent grafts used for other areas are not suitable for use in the aortic arch branch arteries. Known self expanding stent grafts lack the radial force required to perfuse the side branch, especially if the fenestrated aortic stent graft is deployed in an offset configuration. Known balloon expandable stent grafts are generally too stiff to decouple the large amount of motion occurring in the arch from the perfused branch vessel and these rigid stents may fracture. Accordingly, there is a need for a branch stent graft with sufficient flexibility and durability to withstand forces in the aortic arch. Segmented balloon expandable stent grafts, such as those described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/782,627, filed Mar. 1, 2013 (attorney docket no. P0039933.USU1), incorporated by reference herein in its entirety, can provide excellent flexibility and durability for a branch stent graft. However, as described therein, such segmented balloon expandable stent grafts may foreshorten when expanded by the balloon. Foreshortening results in a stent graft that, when expanded to its radially expanded configuration, is shorter than expected or desired. In such a situation, the stent graft does not cover the desired length of a treatment site, resulting in an untreated area or requiring delivery of an additional stent graft to cover the untreated area. Foreshortening may occur due to the design of the stent and the fact that the balloon is generally slightly longer than the stent graft disposed thereon. Because the stent graft resists expansion of the balloon where the stent graft is mounted on the balloon, the proximal and distal ends of the balloon tend to expand first. This pushes the proximal and distal ends of the stent graft towards each other, thereby causing foreshortening. Accordingly, there is a need for a segmented balloon expandable stent graft with sufficient flexibility and durability to withstand forces in the aortic arch and which does not foreshorten (or exhibits reduced foreshortening) during when radially expanded by a balloon. BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Embodiments hereof are directed to a segmented balloon expandable stent graft including a graft material having a generally tubular configuration and a plurality of cylindrical stent elements coupled to the graft material. The plurality of cylindrical stent elements are plastically deformable when expanded from a radially compressed configuration to a radially expanded configuration. The plurality of cylindrical stent elements include a first end stent element disposed adjacent a first end of the graft material, a second end stent element disposed adjacent a second end of the graft material, and a plurality of middle stent elements disposed between the first end stent element and the second end stent element. The first end stent element is independent of the plurality of middle stent elements and the second end stent element is independent of the plurality of middle stent elements. Further, the first end stent element and the second end stent element are more resistant to radial expansion than the plurality of middle stent elements such that the plurality of middle stent elements plastically deform from the radially compressed configuration to the radially expanded configuration when inflated by a balloon prior the first end stent element and the second end stent element. In an embodiment, the first end stent element and the second end stent element are at least twice as resistant to radial expansion as the middle stent elements. In an embodiment the first end stent element and the second end stent element are more resistant to radial pressure by being thicker than the plurality of middle stent elements. Embodiments hereof are also directed to a method of deploying a stent graft in a vessel. The method includes delivering the stent graft to a site within the vessel with the stent graft in a radially compressed configuration. The stent graft includes a first end portion, a second end portion, and a middle portion disposed between the first end portion and the second end portion. The stent graft includes a graft material and a plurality of independent stent elements coupled to the graft material. The method further includes radially expanding the stent graft by applying a substantially uniform radial pressure to the stent graft, wherein the independent stent elements disposed at the first end portion of the stent graft and the independent stent elements disposed at the second end portion of the stent graft expand at a higher radial pressure than the independent stent elements disposed at the middle portion of the stent graft such that the middle portion of the stent graft expands before first end portion and the second end portion. In an embodiment, the independent stent elements disposed at the first and second end portions are more resistant to radial expansion by being thicker than the independent stent elements disposed at the middle portion of the stent graft. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS The foregoing and other features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following description of embodiments thereof as illustrated in the accompanying drawings. The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated herein and form a part of the specification, further serve to explain the principles of the invention and to enable a person skilled in the pertinent art to make and use the invention. The drawings are not to scale. FIG. 1 is a side view of a stent graft in accordance with an embodiment hereof. FIG. 2 is a cross-section taken along lines 2-2 of FIG. 1. FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a stent graft in accordance with an embodiment hereof. FIG. 5 is a schematic illustration of a balloon catheter with a stent graft mounted thereon in accordance with an embodiment hereof. FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a distal portion of the balloon catheter of FIG. 5. FIGS. 7-11 are schematic illustrations depicting a method of deploying a segmented balloon expandable stent graft of the present application using a balloon catheter. FIG. 12 is a schematic illustration of stent grafts of embodiments hereof disposed in the renal arteries. FIG. 13 is a schematic illustration of stent grafts of embodiments hereof disposed in the aortic arch and branch arteries of the aortic arch. Specific embodiments of the present invention are now described with reference to the figures, wherein like reference numbers indicate identical or functionally similar elements. Regarding “proximal” and “distal” positions referenced herein, a proximal end of a prosthesis, e.g., stent-graft, is the end closest to the heart by way of blood flow path whereas a distal end of the prosthesis is the end furthest away from the heart during deployment. In contrast, a distal end of the stent-graft delivery system or other associated delivery apparatus is usually identified as the end that is farthest from the operator, while a proximal end of the delivery system and devices is the end nearest the operator or handle of the catheter. The following detailed description is merely exemplary in nature and is not intended to limit the invention or the application and uses of the invention. Although the descriptions of embodiments hereof are in the context of treatment of blood vessels such as the aorta and branch vessels that emanate therefrom, the invention may also be used in any other body passageways where it is deemed useful. Furthermore, there is no intention to be bound by any expressed or implied theory presented in the preceding technical field, background, brief summary or the following detailed description. FIG. 1 is a side view of a stent graft 100 in accordance with an embodiment hereof. Stent graft 100 includes a graft material 102 and a plurality of stents 104 coupled to graft material 102. Stent graft 100 includes a first end 110 and a second end 112. Stent graft 100 is formed in a tubular shape to form a lumen therethrough and including a longitudinal axis 114, as known in the art. In order for stent graft 100 to have the desired characteristics of flexibility and durability, graft material 102 is expanded Polytetrafluoroethylene (hereinafter “ePTFE”). Stents 104a-104g are individual rings with a zig-zag or generally sinusoidal shape including a plurality of generally straight segments or struts 106 with adjacent struts connected to each with bends or crowns 108. Although seven (7) stents 104a-104g are shown in FIG. 1, those skilled in the art would recognize that more or less stents 104 may be used. The stents 104a-104g of stent graft 100 are “segmented” in that the stents are not connected to each other except through the graft material 102. In other words, other than the graft material, other structures, such as longitudinal connectors, do not connect the stents 104a-104g to each other. Such a segmented stent graft 100 improves flexibility of the stent. However, in some instances, it may be acceptable to couple two or three adjacent stents together provided that these coupled stents are segmented from the other stents. For example, and not by way of limitation, in FIG. 1, the left-most two stents 104a and 104b could be coupled, then there would be no coupling between the second stent 104b and the third stent 104c. The third stent 104c and fourth stent 104d could be coupled together with no coupling between the fourth stent 104d and the fifth stent 104e. Further, the coupling could be with a weak or frangible connector such that after deployment, the connector breaks to de-couple the stents from each other. Accordingly, stents 104a-104g are not coupled to each other in the radially expanded configuration. Stents 104a-104g are made from a plastically deformable material such that when expanded by a balloon, the stents 104a-104g maintain their radially expanded configuration. Stents 104a-104g may be made from stainless steel, nickel-titanium alloys, cobalt-chromium alloys, tantalum alloys, various types of polymers or other materials known to those skilled in the art, including said materials coated with various surface deposits to improve clinical functionality. In an embodiment stents 104a-104g are made from stainless steel. Stents 104a-104g are coupled to graft material 102 by being sandwiched between layers of graft material 102, as shown in FIG. 2. In particular, graft material comprises a first layer 116 and a second layer 118. Although shown as individual layers in FIG. 2, first layer 116 and second layer 118 of graft material 102 are fused together. Further, although two layers 116, 118 are shown, those skilled in the art would understand that each layer 116, 118 may be formed of several layers of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE). Further, ends of layers 106, 108 of graft material 102 may be folded over as described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/782,627, filed Mar. 1, 2013 (attorney docket no. P0039933.USU1), incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. Although ePTFE is the preferred graft material, other graft materials may be used. For example, and not by way of limitation, graft material 102 may be a low-porosity woven or knit polyester (Dacron®) material, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), polyurethane, silicone, ultra high molecular weight polyethylene, or other suitable materials. Further, stents 104a-104g may be coupled to graft material 102 in other ways known to those skilled in the art, such as stitching. In a particular embodiment of a stent graft approximately 3.5 millimeters in diameter, layers 116, 118 of graft material 102 each have a thickness 124 of approximately 0.004 inch and have a density of approximately 0.65 grams/cubic centimeter. Those skilled in the art will recognize that the specifications for materials discussed above are exemplary and other dimensions, thicknesses, sizes, spacing, etc. may be used. As described above, stent grafts, and in particular “segmented” stent grafts wherein the stents are not connected to each other, may experience foreshortening when expanded. In the embodiment of FIGS. 1-2, stents 104a and 104g, i.e., the stents adjacent ends 110 and 112 of stent graft 100, are more resistant to radial expansion that stents 104b-104f. As explained in more detail below, with end stents 104a, 104g more resistant to radial expansion than middle stents 104b-104f, a balloon of a balloon catheter will expand the middle stents 104b-104f first, and then a combined radial and axial force will expand end stents 104a, 104g such that foreshortening will be eliminated or minimized. In the embodiment of FIG. 1, ends stents 104a, 104g are more resistant to radial expansion than middle stents 104b-104f by being the same material, but thicker, as can be seen schematically in FIG. 1. In particular, stents 104a, 104g are each at least 2 times more resistant to radial expansion than each of stents 104b-104f. In one particular embodiment, stents 104a, 104g are each approximately 3 times more resistant to radial expansion than each of stents 104b-104f. In an example wherein stainless steel is used for stents 104a-104g, stents 104b-104f each are approximately 0.010 inch in thickness and stents 104a, 104g are each approximately 0.013 inch in thickness. Such an increase in thickness of approximately 0.003 inch in thickness results in approximately a tripling of an increase in resistance to radial expansion. The exemplary thicknesses provided are for stent graft with an expanded diameter of approximately 0.45 inch. Those skilled in the art would recognize that the examples provided above are merely examples for a particular stent graft and do not limit the invention. Accordingly, other materials and thicknesses may be used provided that the end stents have a higher resistance to radial expansion such that foreshortening is reduced or eliminated, as described herein. Although FIG. 1 shows that end stents 104a, 104g are made more resistant to radial expansion than middle stents 104b-104f by being thicker, other ways to make the end stents more resistant to radial expansion than the middle stents may also be utilized. For example, and not by way of limitation, FIG. 3 shows schematically a side view of stent graft 200 in accordance with another embodiment hereof. Stent graft 200 includes a graft material 202 and a plurality of stents 204a-204g coupled to graft material 202. Stent graft 200 includes a first end 210 and a second end 212. Stent graft 200 is formed in a tubular shape to form a lumen therethrough and including a longitudinal axis 214, as known in the art. As discussed above with respect to stent graft 100, stent graft 200 is preferably formed with graft material 202 of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (hereinafter “ePTFE”) and stents 204a-204g of stainless steel. However, as also explained above, graft material 202 and stents 204a-204g may be formed of other materials. Further, more or less stents 204a-204g may be utilized. As described above, stents 204a-204g are individual rings with a zig-zag or generally sinusoidal shape including a plurality of generally straight segments or struts 206 with adjacent struts connected to each with bends or crowns 208. Further, stents 204a-204g of stent graft 200 are “segmented” in that the stents are not connected to each other except through the graft material 202. In other words, other than the graft material, other structures, such as longitudinal connectors, do not connect the stents 204a-204g to each other. As described above, stent grafts, and in particular “segmented” stent grafts wherein the stents are not connected to each other, may experience foreshortening when expanded. In the embodiment of FIG. 3, stents 204a and 204g, i.e., the stents adjacent ends 210 and 212 of stent graft 200, are more resistant to radial expansion than stents 204b-204f. As explained in more detail below, with end stents 204a, 204g more resistant to radial expansion than middle stents 204b-204f, a balloon of a balloon catheter will expand the middle stents 204b-204f first, and then a combined radial and axial force will expand end stents 204a, 204g such that foreshortening will be eliminated or minimized. In the embodiment of FIG. 3, rather than making the end stents thicker than the middle stents, end stents 204a, 204g are made more resistant to radial expansion than middle stents 204b-204f by providing more crowns 208 around the circumference of stent graft 200 for stents 204a, 204g than for stents 204b-204f. Increasing the number of crowns 208 generally increases the stents resistance to radial expansion. Further, in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, struts 206 in end stents 204a, 204g are shorter than struts 206 in middle stents 204b-204f. Although FIG. 3, shows both more crowns 208 and shorter struts in end stents 204a, 204g, those skill in the art would recognize that either or both may be used to make end stents 204a, 204g more resistant to radial expansion than middle stents 204b-204f. It is understood by those skilled in the art that, if the stent is seen as the approximation of a sine curve, any decrease in the amplitude of the strut or increase in the pitch/frequency of the strut pattern will increase the radial force required to expand the stent if the wire diameter remains the same. In this embodiment, if the stent strut of 204a has an amplitude of “A” and the stent strut frequency is “f”, then the corresponding features of 204b would be “A”×(n>1) and/or “f”'(n<1). In particular, as described above, stents 204a, 204g each may be at least 2 times more resistant to radial expansion than each of stents 104b-104f. In one particular embodiment, stents 104a, 104g are each approximately 3 times more resistant to radial expansion than each of stents 104b-104f. FIG. 4 shows a schematic side view of another embodiment of a stent graft 300 with reduced foreshortening. Stent graft 300 includes a graft material 302 and a plurality of stents 304a-304g coupled to graft material 302. Stent graft 300 includes a first end 310 and a second end 312. Stent graft 300 is formed in a tubular shape to form a lumen therethrough and including a longitudinal axis 314, as known in the art. As discussed above with respect to stent grafts 100 and 200, stent graft 300 is preferably formed with graft material 302 of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (hereinafter “ePTFE”) and stents 304a-304g of stainless steel. However, as also explained above, graft material 302 and stents 304a-304g may be formed of other materials. Further, more or less stents 304a-304g may be utilized. As described above, stents 304a-304g are individual rings with a zig-zag or generally sinusoidal shape including a plurality of generally straight segments or struts 306 with adjacent struts connected to each with bends or crowns 308. Further, stents 304a-304g of stent graft 300 are “segmented” in that the stents are not connected to each other except through the graft material 302. In other words, other than the graft material, other structures, such as longitudinal connectors, do not connect the stents 304a-304g to each other. As described above, stent grafts, and in particular “segmented” stent grafts wherein the stents are not connected to each other, may experience foreshortening when expanded. In the embodiment of FIG. 4, stents 304a and 304g, i.e., the stents adjacent ends 310 and 312 of stent graft 300, are more resistant to radial expansion than stents 304b-304f. As explained in more detail below, with end stents 304a, 304g more resistant to radial expansion than middle stents 304b-304f, a balloon of a balloon catheter will expand the middle stents 304b-304f first, and then a combined radial and axial force will expand end stents 304a, 304g such that foreshortening will be eliminated or minimized. In the embodiment of FIG. 4, rather than making the end stents thicker than the middle stents, end stents 304a, 304g are made more resistant to radial expansion than middle stents 304b-304f by making crowns 308 of end stents 304a, 304g thicker than crowns 308 of middle stents 304b-304f, as shown schematically in FIG. 4. For example, and not by way of limitation, crowns 308 of stents 304a, 304g may be approximately 0.005″ inch thicker than crowns 308 of middle stents 304b-304f. Increasing the thickness of crowns 308 and number of crowns 308 generally increases the stents resistance to radial expansion. In particular, as described above, end stents 304a, 304g are each at least 2 times more resistant to radial expansion than each of stents 304b-304f. In one particular embodiment, end stents 304a, 304g are each approximately 3 times more resistant to radial expansion than each of stents 304b-304f. Those skilled in the art would recognize that although FIGS. 1, 3, and 4 show different ways to make the end stents more resistant to radial expansion that the middle stents, other ways may be utilized. Further, the embodiments may be combined. For example, and not by way of limitation, the crowns of the end stents may be thicker than the middle stents (as shown in FIG. 4), and the end stents may have a smaller amplitude/greater frequency than the middle stents (as shown in FIG. 3). In such a situation, the combination of features allows each to be not as prominent. For example, the crowns need not be as thick as the embodiment where only the crowns are thicker and the amplitude/frequency remains the same as the middle stents. In a similar fashion, the embodiments of FIGS. 1 and 3 may be combined to make the end stents more resistant to radial expansion than the middle stents. FIGS. 5 and 6 show a balloon catheter 400 with stent graft 100 mounted thereon for delivering stent graft 100 to a desired treatment site and deployed stent graft 100 at the treatment site. Although FIGS. 5 and 6 show stent graft 100 mounted on catheter 400, those skilled in the art would recognize that stent graft 200 or stent graft 300, or variations thereof described above, may be used instead of stent graft 100. As shown generally in FIG. 5, balloon catheter 400 includes a proximal portion 402 and a distal portion 404. Balloon catheter 400 as shown includes an outer shaft 408 and an inner shaft 410 disposed in a lumen of outer shaft 408. A lumen 412 of inner shaft 410 is generally known as a guidewire lumen. An annular or inflation lumen 414 is defined between an outer surface of inner shaft 410 and an inner surface of outer shaft 408. Although a dual shaft or “over-the-wire” balloon catheter is shown, other types of balloon catheters known in the art may be used including, but not limited to, rapid exchange catheters. Proximal portion 402 includes a handle or luer 403, such as a Touhy-Borst adapter. Luer 403 includes an opening 405 for a lumen 407 that is coupled to guidewire lumen 412 of an inner shaft 410. Luer 403 also includes an opening 406 for a lumen 409 that is coupled to inflation lumen 414. Proximal portion 402 may include other devices known to those skilled in the art, such as, but not limited to, strain relief elements, hemodynamic seals, and the like. Distal portion 404 of balloon catheter 400 is shown in FIG. 5 and in more detail in FIG. 6. A balloon 420 is disposed at distal portion 404 of catheter 400. In the embodiment shown, a proximal portion 422 of balloon is coupled to an outer surface of a distal portion 411 of outer shaft 408 at connection 426 and a distal portion 424 of balloon 420 is coupled to an outer surface of inner shaft 410 at connection 428. Connections 426 and 428 may be an adhesive or other connections know to those skilled in the art. As shown, inner shaft 410 extends distally beyond a distal end of outer shaft 408. Accordingly, inflation lumen 414 extends into an interior 421 of balloon 420, as known in the art. Although a particular embodiment of a balloon catheter is shown, those skilled in the art would recognize that many variations of a balloon catheter may be utilized. Stent graft 100 is mounted around balloon 420, as known in the art. Stent graft 100 is generally radially compressed to a radially compressed configuration for mounting on balloon catheter 400 for delivery to the treatment site. FIGS. 7-11 show a method of deploying stent graft 100 in a vessel 500 with reduced foreshortening. As shown in FIG. 7, catheter 400 is delivered within a vessel 500 to a deployment site. Catheter 400 can be inserted into vessel 500 and delivered through the lumen of vessel 500 by methods known to those skilled in the art. For example, and not by way of limitation, and access opening may be formed into the femoral artery by the Seldinger technique. A guidewire (not shown) may be inserted into vessel 500 and advanced to the deployment site. Catheter 400 may then be advanced along the guidewire to the deployment site, as known in the art. Although shown generally as a vessel 500, segmented stent graft 100 is particularly useful as a branch stent disposed in a branch vessel that is coupled to a main stent graft disposed in a main vessel. For example, and not by way of limitation, end 110 of stent graft 100 may be disposed in a fenestration of a main stent graft deployed in the main vessel, with the remainder of stent graft 100 extending away from the main stent graft and into a branch vessel. For example, and not by way of limitation, the main stent graft may be disposed in the aorta, and stent graft 100 may be disposed in a branch vessel extending from the aorta, such as but not limited to the brachiocephalic artery, the left common carotid artery, the left subclavian artery, and the left and right renal arteries. Upon reaching the deployment site, a fluid is inserted through opening 406 in luer 403 and into inflation lumen 414. The fluid may be any fluid suitable for use in inflatable a balloon, such as, but not limited to, a saline solution. The inflation fluid travels from inflation lumen 414 into interior 421 of balloon 420. As interior 421 fills, balloon 420 expands, as shown in FIG. 8. Because end stents 104a, 104g have a higher resistance to radial expansion, middle stents 104b-104f begin to expand prior to end stents 104a, 104g, as shown schematically in FIG. 8. As the expansion fluid continues to fill interior 421 of balloon 420, the outward radial pressure of balloon 420 increases. FIG. 9 shows a schematic view of balloon 420 expanding with stent graft 100 disposed thereon with vessel 500 other details of catheter 400 not included for clarity. As can be seen schematically in FIG. 9, middle stents 104b-104f have been expanded by balloon 420. However, due to their increased resistance to radial force, end stents 104a, 104g have not been expanded. As middle stents 104b-104f are expanding, but end stents 104a, 104g are not, a balloon force Fb is exerted by balloon 420 on end stents 104a, 104g. Balloon force Fb includes a radial component Fr which tends to expand end stents 104a, 104g radially outwardly, and an axial component Fa which tends to push ends stents 104a, 104g axially away from each other. This axial component force Fa prevents end stents 104a, 104g from collapsing, i.e. “train wrecking” towards middle stents 104b-104f, thereby maintaining the desired length of stent graft 100. In the embodiment of FIG. 9, balloon 420 is longer than stent 100. In another, embodiment, shown in FIG. 9A, a balloon 420′ is approximately the same length as the desired length for stent 100 when deployed. As can be seen in FIG. 9A, as expansion fluid fills interior 421′ of balloon 420′, the outward radial pressure of balloon 420′ increases. Similar to FIG. 9, middle stents 104b-104f have been expanded by balloon 420′. However, due to their increased resistance to radial force, end stents 104a, 104g have not been expanded. As middle stents 104b-104f are expanding, but end stents 104a, 104g are not, a balloon force Fb is exerted by balloon 420′ on end stents 104a, 104g. Balloon force Fb includes a radial component Fr which tends to expand end stents 104a, 104g radially outwardly, and an axial component Fa which tends to push ends stents 104a, 104g axially away from each other. This axial component force Fa prevents end stents 104a, 104g from collapsing, i.e. “train wrecking” towards middle stents 104b-104f, thereby maintaining the desired length of stent graft 100. In the embodiment of FIG. 9A, because balloon 420′ is approximately the same length of stent 100, no inward axial forces from the portions of balloon 420 outside stent graft 100 (as shown in FIG. 9) act on stent graft 100. As the fluid pressure within balloon 420, 420′ increases, thereby increasing the pressure exerted by balloon 420, 420′ on stent graft 100, the increased resistance to radial force of end stents 102a, 102g is overcome, thereby expanding end stents 102a, 102g, as shown in FIG. 10. With stent graft 100 deployed, the inflation fluid may be withdrawn from interior 421, 421′ of balloon 420, 420′ and catheter 400 may be removed, leaving stent graft 100 deployed in vessel 500, as shown in FIG. 11. FIGS. 12 and 13 show potential uses of the stent grafts described herein in different locations. These locations are only examples and do not limit the potential uses and locations for the stent grafts described herein. FIG. 12 shows a main stent graft MSG disposed in the descending aorta 502 at the site of an abdominal aortic aneurysm AAA. In the embodiment shown, main stent graft MSG is a conventional stent graft including fenestrations or apertures 602, 604 for access to the renal arteries 504, 506. In the embodiment shown, branch stent grafts 100 are disposed in fenestrations 602, 604 and into renal arteries 504, 506. The branch stent grafts 100 are as described herein. Although reference numeral 100 is used, those skilled in the art would recognize that any of the stent graft described herein can be used, including variations described herein. In the embodiment of FIG. 12, one of the fenestrations 602 is not aligned with renal artery 504. Accordingly, branch stent graft 100 extends from fenestration 602 is the main vessel 502 and has to bend/curve to gain access to renal artery 504. Further, due to the large volume of blood pumped through the aorta, the aorta moves significantly. Thus, a highly flexibly stent graft, without foreshortening, as described herein, is desirable. FIG. 13 shows another exemplary use of the stent graft described herein. In the embodiment of FIG. 13, a main stent graft MSG is disposed in the aortic arch 510 having an aortic aneurysm AA. Further, branch stent grafts BSG extend from fenestrations in the main stent graft MSG and into branch arteries 512, 514. In the embodiment shown, the branch arteries 512, 514 are the left common carotid artery and the left subclavian artery, respectively. However, those skilled in the art would recognize that the main stent graft MS may be located in other areas and more or less branch arteries may be involved. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 13, the main stent graft MSG and branch stent grafts BSG are each stent graft as described herein. In other words, main stent graft MSG and branch stent grafts BSG are balloon expandable segmented stent grafts with end stents more resistant to radial expansion than middle stents, as described above. Although the stent grafts of FIG. 13 are shown with the embodiment of FIG. 1, any of the embodiments described herein, and variations thereof, may be utilized. Further, although all of the stent grafts of FIG. 13 are shown to be stent graft according to the descriptions herein, less than all of the stent grafts can be stent grafts of the present application. For example, the main stent graft MSG may be a conventional stent graft and one or both of the branch stent grafts BSG may be stent grafts of the present application. Similarly, the main stent graft MSG may be a stent graft of the present application and one or both of the branch stent grafts BSG may be a conventional stent graft. With the curvature of the aortic arch and the motion thereof, it is desirable to have highly flexible stent grafts disposed in the area, while simultaneously limiting foreshortening, as disclosed in the present application. While various embodiments have been described above, it should be understood that they have been presented only as illustrations and examples of the present invention, and not by way of limitation. It will be apparent to persons skilled in the relevant art that various changes in form and detail can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Thus, the breadth and scope of the present invention should not be limited by any of the above-described exemplary embodiments, but should be defined only in accordance with the appended claims and their equivalents. It will also be understood that each feature of each embodiment discussed herein, and of each reference cited herein, can be used in combination with the features of any other embodiment. All patents and publications discussed herein are incorporated by reference herein in their entirety. 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__label__wiki	0.551374	0.551374	Home Abraham Lincoln - Documents Page 229 Abraham Lincoln: his life, public services, death and great funeral cortege, with a history and description of the National Lincoln Monument, with an appendix AND THE NATIONAL LINCOLN MONUMENT. 229 consideration of the subject. In a letter to the Asso- ciation, dated at Chicago, June fifth, Mrs. Lincoln still objected to that location. On the fourteenth day of the month, it was decided by a majority of one, in a full Board of Directors, to build the Monument in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Six acres of land were donated by the city of Springfield, and conveyed to the Asssocia- tion as a site for the Monument. Measures were at once taken to erect a temporary vault, near that belonging to the cemetery. The object in building a temporary vault, was that the remains might be deposited there until the Monu- ment could be completed, and thus vacate the public vault. The temporary vault was completed before winter, and a notice given to Mrs. Lincoln, at Chi- cago, that the Association was ready to remove the body of her late husband; that it would be done with- out public display, and asked her to name the time that it would be convenient for her to be present. She replied, saying that December 21, at three o'clock p. m., would suit her. A day or two previous to the time fixed for the removal, Mrs. Lincoln, with her son Rob- ert, came to Springfield, and visited the new tomb. She expressed herself well pleased with what had been done, but a sudden indisposition prevented her being present when the removal took place. In process of transferring the remains, the box containing the coffin was opened, in order that the features of the deceased might be seen, and six of his personal acquaintances filed a written statement with the Secretary of the Association, that it was the body of Abraham Lincoln beyond a doubt. This was deemed advisable, to keep the evidence of identity unbroken through the changes necessary to be made before the completion of his final resting place. Mr. Lincoln had one son who died in childhood, many years ago, and was buried in Hutchinson ceme- tery, near the city. His body was removed to the tem- Title Abraham Lincoln: his life, public services, death and great funeral cortege, with a history and description of the National Lincoln Monument, with an appendix Creator Power, John Carroll, 1819-1894 Subject [LCSH] Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Tomb Geographic Coverage United States--Illinois Transcript AND THE NATIONAL LINCOLN MONUMENT. 229 consideration of the subject. In a letter to the Asso- ciation, dated at Chicago, June fifth, Mrs. Lincoln still objected to that location. On the fourteenth day of the month, it was decided by a majority of one, in a full Board of Directors, to build the Monument in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Six acres of land were donated by the city of Springfield, and conveyed to the Asssocia- tion as a site for the Monument. Measures were at once taken to erect a temporary vault, near that belonging to the cemetery. The object in building a temporary vault, was that the remains might be deposited there until the Monu- ment could be completed, and thus vacate the public vault. The temporary vault was completed before winter, and a notice given to Mrs. Lincoln, at Chi- cago, that the Association was ready to remove the body of her late husband; that it would be done with- out public display, and asked her to name the time that it would be convenient for her to be present. She replied, saying that December 21, at three o'clock p. m., would suit her. A day or two previous to the time fixed for the removal, Mrs. Lincoln, with her son Rob- ert, came to Springfield, and visited the new tomb. She expressed herself well pleased with what had been done, but a sudden indisposition prevented her being present when the removal took place. In process of transferring the remains, the box containing the coffin was opened, in order that the features of the deceased might be seen, and six of his personal acquaintances filed a written statement with the Secretary of the Association, that it was the body of Abraham Lincoln beyond a doubt. This was deemed advisable, to keep the evidence of identity unbroken through the changes necessary to be made before the completion of his final resting place. Mr. Lincoln had one son who died in childhood, many years ago, and was buried in Hutchinson ceme- tery, near the city. His body was removed to the tem- Abraham Lincoln: his life, public services, death and... 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__label__wiki	0.871033	0.871033	valley bureau / mission community police station / mission news Detectives Return Champ’s Belts, Taken in Burglary NR13051pv Mission Hill: Fingerprints left on a mirror in the burglarized home of boxing champion Jennifer “The Razor” Barber were the knockout punch that clinched it for detectives in the case of the missing championship belts. “The smile on Jennifer’s face says it all,” said Det. William Cooper, who investigated the burglary. “We were glad we were able to get her back her belts.” The two belts were found inside the home of convicted burglar, 20-year-old Jose Pedraza, who had just finished serving time in county jail for two other local burglaries. Pedraza has been transferred from jail to ICE custody, pending an uncontested deportation to Mexico. “When the print report came in, we had to act fast,” Det. Cooper explained. “Unlike the other burglaries, Pedraza was not copping out to this one, and it seemed like he was in a hurry to get out of the country, like he was trying to avoid something.” Det. Cooper got an arrest warrant for Pedraza, based on the positive print identification, which was the only way to stop the deportation. Then detectives went to Pedraza’s home in Sylmar and conducted a probation search. “After I interviewed Pedraza, my gut told me he seemed like a guy that might hold onto the belts, rather than hawk them,” Cooper said. Detectives found both belts at the bottom of a clothes hamper in Pedraza’s home. Unfortunately, detectives were not able to find Barber and her husband’s wedding rings, which had also been taken in the March 20, 2012 break-in. Pedraza’s deportation has been delayed as he faces this latest count of burglary, his third in one year. Interestingly, Pedraza was also made by his prints on the two earlier burglaries, also committed in Mission Hills, dating back to December 2011. When detectives caught up to him for those two cases, he was working off community service at the Mission Police Station for a DUI conviction. Anyone with information on this crime is urged to call Detective William Cooper, Mission Burglary Unit, at 818-838-9866. Anonymous tips can be called into Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477), or by texting 274637 (C-R-I-M-E-S on most keypads) with a cell phone. All text messages should begin with the letters “LAPD.” Online tips may be placed at www.LAPDOnline.org, click on “webtips” and follow the prompts. Jennifer Barber is available for comment to media on this release. Please call LAPD Media Relations to obtain contact number. 11121 N. Sepulveda Blvd Mission Hills, CA 91345 About Mission Mission Community Telephone Directory Mission Division Goals Mission Substations Valley Traffic Mission Most Wanted Mission Crime Statistics Mission Community Newsletter	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line610
__label__wiki	0.900079	0.900079	‘I hate you!’ Kurt Cobain left ‘hidden messages and death clues in Nirvana songs’ Home Daily Star News KURT Cobain left hidden messages in Nirvana songs that pointed to his eventual death, conspiracy theorists claim. The grunge legend was found dead aged 27 after a supposed self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in 1994 at his home in Seattle. Truthers have since pored over Nirvana’s back-catalogue in an effort to find “clues” from the singer. They claim to have discovered a series of chilling statements from Cobain after playing songs backwards. In Come As You Are, truthers have picked out the line “I’m near my end” in a... source: Daily Star Antarctica bombshell: How scientists found clues about Jesus Christ’s era below ice The icy continent is an unspoilt haven for scientists and home to the geographic South Pole – which NASA is using to prepare for life on Mars. More than 1,000 scientists reside there in various camps across the frozen desert, braving temperatures as low as -90C. Their The BBC's Songs of Praise is filmed at St Martin's Church in Stamford The world’s longest-running religious television programmes was recorded in Stamford on Monday evening. The Songs of Praise cameras arrived at St Martin’s Church for the first time since the 1970s and a large and enthusiastic congregation packed out the church. They sang 12 hymns Stamford Mercury yesterday 15:26 Paedophile from Manea sent explicit messages to 'young boy' A paedophile from a Fenland village has been jailed for two years after he sent explicit messages to who he believed was a young boy. Simon Martin, 40, began sending messages to a person he believed was a 12-year-old boy on December 27 last year but he was in fact communicating with an Fenland Citizen yesterday 11:14 Queen musical SHOCK: The ONE musical the Queen adores - and her favourite songs revealed Queen Elizabeth II, 93, is the longest-serving British monarch in history, having beat Queen Victoria in 2015. She has ruled during the rise of rock and roll, swing music right through to disco and heavy metal. But according to one musician, the Queen’s favourite type of music is show 16 walks across Somerset with a hidden gem of a pub on the route Because there's nothing better than tucking into a pub classic after taking in some stunning views After a nice long walk exploring Somerset's wonderful countryside, there's nothing quite like rewarding yourself with a refreshing pint of beer or slice of homemade cake. Somerset Live 2019-07-14 08:47 Latest news from Daily Star today 22:23 Albinos 'hunted like animals' by witchdoctors who believe their body parts bring luck today 22:23 NASA lining up breakthrough robot Moon landings in one small step for cyborg	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line612
__label__cc	0.713333	0.286667	Lee Valley > Woodworking > Turning > Chucks & Accessories > Axminster® Jaw Sets Axminster® O'Donnell Spigot Jaws & Inserts With their extended length and tapered section, these jaws offer the advantage of providing clearance between the chuck and the workpiece for close-in tool work on the underside of a bowl or a vase bottom. The lip of the jaw has internal and external faces with smooth, non-marring dovetails for gripping a short tenon and expansion into a recessed foot. The jaws also have a deep recess to firmly hold the long tenons required when working at a distance from the headstock without tailstock support. Available in two versions: 35mm (1-3/8") for all Axminster chucks, and 50mm (2") for the K10 and Goliath. Screw-mounted inserts are available for the large jaws to reduce their diameter (spigot size noted). The 35mm (1-2/8") O'Donnell Spigot Jaws are not stocked at our retail stores, but can be ordered for pick-up at our stores. Nominal Imperial dimensions are given in parentheses. Chuck Internal External Optimum O'Donnell Jaws, 35mm (1-3/8") Goliath 1-3/16" to 1-31/32" 1-3/16" to 1-31/32" 1-3/16" to 1-31/32" 1-25/32" to 2-9/16" 1-25/32" to 2-9/16" 1-25/32" to 2-9/16" 1-3/8" to 1-25/32" 1-3/8" to 1-25/32" 50mm (2") Goliath 1-7/8" to 2-27/32" 1-7/8" to 4-1/32" 2-3/8" to 3-11/32" 2-3/8" to 4-17/32" 1-31/32" to 2-15/32" 1-31/32" to 2-15/32" O'Donnell Jaw Inserts, Goliath 23/32" to 1-23/32" 23/32" to 2-7/8" 1-3/16" to 2-5/32" 1-3/16" to 3-11/32" 1" to 1-11/32" 1" to 1-11/32" 1-3/16" to 3-11/32" 1-25/32" to 2-3/4" 1-25/32" to 3-15/16" 1-1/2" to 1-31/32" A. O'Donnell Jaws, 35mm (1-3/8") 58B40.42 $75.00 O'Donnell Jaws, 50mm (2") B. O'Donnell Jaw Inserts, 25mm (1") O'Donnell Jaw Inserts, 38mm (1-1/2")	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line613
__label__wiki	0.736051	0.736051	The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001 UK Statutory Instruments 2001 No. 3649 Building Societies Act 1986... Open whole Instrument Restrictions on powers of building societies 195.—(1) Section 9A of the Building Societies Act 1986(1) (restrictions on certain transactions) is amended as follows. (2) In subsection (5)— (a)for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute— “(a)as a person who has permission under Part IV of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to effect or carry out contracts of long-term insurance, or (b)an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(d) of Schedule 3 to that Act, which has permission under paragraph 15 of that Schedule (as a result of qualifying for authorisation under paragraph 12 of that Schedule) to effect or carry out contracts of long-term insurance.”; (b)the words after paragraph (b) to the end are repealed. (a)in the definition of “collective investment scheme” for the words “Financial Services Act 1986” substitute “Financial Services and Markets Act 2000”; (b)for the definition of “derivative investment” substitute— ““derivative investment” means an investment of the following kinds— instruments giving entitlements to investments; options; futures; contracts for differences;”. (4) After subsection (9) insert— “(9A) Subsection (5) and the definition of “derivative investment” in subsection (9) must be read with— (a)section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; (b)any relevant order under that section; and (c)Schedule 2 to that Act;”. Section 9A was inserted by the Building Societies Act 1997, section 10 and amended by S.I. 2001/1826 and S.I. 2001/2617. PrintThe Whole Instrument PDF The Whole Instrument Web page The Whole Instrument PrintThe Whole Chapter PDF The Whole Chapter Web page The Whole Chapter PrintThe Whole Cross Heading PDF The Whole Cross Heading Web page The Whole Cross Heading You have chosen to open The Whole Instrument The Whole Instrument you have selected contains over 200 provisions and might take some time to download. You may also experience some issues with your browser, such as an alert box that a script is taking a long time to run. You have chosen to open The Whole Instrument as a PDF The Whole Instrument you have selected contains over 200 provisions and might take some time to download. You have chosen to open The Whole Instrument without Schedules The Whole Instrument without Schedules you have selected contains over 200 provisions and might take some time to download. You may also experience some issues with your browser, such as an alert box that a script is taking a long time to run. You have chosen to open The Whole Instrument without Schedules as a PDF The Whole Instrument without Schedules you have selected contains over 200 provisions and might take some time to download.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line614
__label__cc	0.731825	0.268175	SOLOVYEV, VLADIMIR SERGEYEVICH: By: Herman Rosenthal Russian publicist and friend of the Jews; born 1853; died in 1900. In an article, "Rossiya i Yevropa," he opposed the attitude of the Slavyanophil party against the Jews. He became a member of the Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia, and took an active part in the work of the Historical and Ethnographical Society. Even on his death-bed he is said to have prayed for the Jewish people. His chief works are: "Krisis Zapadnoi Philosophii"; "La Russie et l'Eglise Universelle"; "Istoriya Buduschnosti Teokratii" ("Philosophiya Bibliskoi Istorii"); "Opravdaniye Dobra"; and "I Kritika Otvlechennyka Nachel." Statyi o Solovyevye, Radlova i Arsenyeva, in the Russian edition of Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon; Vyestnik Yevropy, Sept., 1900; Voskhod, Nov., 1900; Khronika Voskhoda, 1900, Nos. 60 and 69. H. R.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line623
__label__wiki	0.803558	0.803558	The Clay Shaw trial testimony of Jeff Biddison CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA vs. CLAY L. SHAW SECTION "C" EXCERPT OF THE TESTIMONY TAKEN IN OPEN COURT TESTIMONY OF ARTHUR JEFFERSON BIDDISON B E F O R E: THE HONORABLE EDWARD A. HAGGERTY, JR., JUDGE, SECTION "C" ARTHUR JEFFERSON BIDDISON, having been first duly sworn, was examined and testified as follows: DIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR. DYMOND: Q: For the record, would you kindly state your full name, sir? A: Arthur Jefferson Biddison. Q: Where do you reside? A: 1414 Chartres Street, New Orleans. Q: How long have you lived there, sir? A: Since 1957. Q: What is your occupation, Mr. Biddison? A: I am a real estate man. Q: How long have you been in the real estate business? A: Eight or nine years. Q: Mr. Biddison, do you know Clay Shaw, the Defendant in this case? A: Yes, I do. Q: How long have you known him approximately? A: Approximately twenty-three years. Q: Mr. Biddison, referring back to the year 1963, did you own an automobile at that time? A: Yes, I did. Q: Can you tell us what kind of automobile it was? A: It was a 1960 black Cadillac sedan. Q: I show you a photograph which has been introduced in evidence and marked for identi- fication as State-2, and ask you whether you are able to identify this either as your automobile or one which was similar in appearance to your automobile? Q: As which can you identify it, yours or a similar car? A: I can identify it as my automobile. Q: How do you do that? A: By the house in the background belonging to the man I sold it to. Q: Would his name be Hyatt? Q: Mr. Biddison, from your previous testimony as to how long you have known Mr. Shaw, I would gather you did know him then in 1963, is that correct, sir? Q: Was he a close friend of yours at that time? Q: During the year 1963, Mr. Biddison, did you ever have occasion to lend this automobile to Mr. Shaw? Q: Could you tell us how you are able to be so positive in that answer, sir? A: This car was used by me in my business and Mr. Shaw had a car of his own at that time. Q: Do you recall what kind of car he had at that time? A: A black Thunderbird I believe. Q: Did you ever lend this automobile to anyone else that you remember? A: No, this was my personal company car. Q: More particularly, did you ever lend this automobile to anyone for a sufficient period for them to be able to take a trip out of town? A: Not in 1963. Q: When, if ever, did you? A: In 1966 when I had two cars. In the summer and fall of 1966. Q: Now, Mr. Biddison, during the years you have known Mr. Clay Shaw, have you ever known him to go under any name other than Clay Shaw or Clay L. Shaw? Q: In other words, have you ever known him to use an alias? Q: Have you ever known any individual by the name of Clay Bertrand? A: Never. Q: Have you ever known any individual by the name of Clem Bertrand? Q: Mr. Biddison, during the years you have known Mr. Shaw were you reasonably familiar with his circle of friends? Q: Did you ever know, or hear of, a man by the name of Leon Oswald or Lee Harvey Oswald? A: No, not until the assassination. Q: Since the assassination have you seen photographs of Oswald? Q: Do you know Mr. Shaw to be acquainted with anyone by the name of Leon Oswald or Lee Harvey Oswald? Q: Have you heard him mention that name? Q: Have you ever known a man by the name of David W. Ferrie? Q: Do you know if Mr. Shaw ever knew him? Q: Did you hear Mr. Shaw mention David W. Ferrie or Dave Ferrie before being charged in this case? Q: I show you State-1, purporting to be a photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald, and ask you if you have ever seen that man in person? A: No, I have never seen this man in person. Q: Have you ever seen that man in the company of the Defendant, Clay Shaw? Q: I show you another photograph which has been marked for identification as State-3, and introduced into evidence, purporting to be a photograph of the late David W. Ferrie, and ask you to examine that photograph and tell me whether you have ever seen that man in person? Q: Have you ever seen that man in the company of the Defendant, Clay L. Shaw? Q: Now, Mr. Biddison, I show you a photograph which has been marked for identification as State-19, and offered into evidence, purporting to be a photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald with a beard drawn in in pencil, or some other material. I ask you to examine that photograph and ask if you have ever to your knowledge seen the man depicted in that photograph? Q: Have you ever seen the man depicted in this photograph or one similar to him in appearance, in the company of Clay Shaw? Q: During the years you have known or been acquainted with Clay L. Shaw, have you become acquainted with his manner of dress? Q: Have you ever known him to wear tight pants? Q: Have you ever known him to wear a hat? Q: Have you ever known him to own a hat other than in military service? Q: Mr. Biddison, do you recall when Mr. Clay Shaw took a trip to Europe back in 1966? Q: What, if anything, particularly recalls to your mind that event? A: I drove him to the ship, we went to lunch and to the ship when he boarded the ship. I had leased his home to Mr. and Mrs. A. Rosada for the period he was supposed to be away. Q: Do you have a copy of that lease with you? MR. ALCOCK: May we see that if you are going to question him about it? MR. DYMOND: Yes. (Whereupon, it was marked for identification as Defense Exhibit 53.) BY MR. DYMOND: Q: Mr. Biddison, I show you the document which you have just presented to me and which I have marked for identification as D-53, and ask you if you can tell us what this particular document represents? A: It represents a lease between Mr. Clay Shaw and Mr. Alberto Fowler, the son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Rosada, who leased through my office Mr. Shaw's home for -- Q: What address is that? A: 1313 Dauphine Street, for an initial period of three months commencing on the 4th day of May 1966 to the 3rd day of August 1966. Q: You say you negotiated this lease as a real estate agent? A: As a real estate agent, agent to Mr. Shaw. MR. DYMOND: In connection with the testimony of this witness we would like to offer, file and produce in evidence the document marked as D-53. MR. ALCOCK: No objection. THE COURT: Let it be received in evidence. (Whereupon, the document offered by Counsel was received into evidence.) Q: To your knowledge, Mr. Biddison, was this lease ever extended from its initial period? A: Yes, it was. Q: For what period of time, if you know? A: For two periods of time, from August 4th to September 3rd and with the approval of Mr. Shaw it was extended again twice through September 20th. Q: Even though he was returning prior to that time? Q: Of what year are you speaking? A: 1966. There were two extensions. Q: During the time that Mr. Shaw was out of the country did you receive any mail at your home for him? A: Not to my knowledge, not at my home. Q: Did you receive mail for him from any place else? A: Yes, at my office. Q: To what name was it addressed? A: Mr. Clay Shaw, 900 Royal Street, or care of Marilyn Tate Company, and some mail was brought to our office by Mr. and Mrs. Rosada from his home, and some mail was mailed directly to me at my home knowing I would be forwarding the mail to Mr. Shaw in Europe. Q: What did you do with this mail which you received for Mr. Shaw? A: On two occasions what I thought would be mail that didn't need to be deposited in the bank or business affairs and that sort of thing, I put in envelopes on two occasions and mailed to him in Spain and England. Q: For the purpose of determining what type of mail this was, Mr. Biddison, whether it consisted of bank deposits and such, did you have occasion to look individually at each piece of mail received by you for Mr. Shaw? A: Yes, I opened all mail because I was not going to mail everything. It was at my discretion what I forwarded to him. Q: Did you at any time receive any mail either at your office, at your residence or any place else addressed to Clay Bertrand prior to the commencment of the trial of this case? A: Never prior to the commencement of the trial of this case. Q: How long do you say you have been living at that address? A: Since 1957. I restored the building. It was not a post office address prior to that time. Q: What year was that, sir? A: 1957. Q: Could you tell me what type of mailbox you have there, is it a locked mailbox or one that is not locked? A: It is a cast-iron post box of probably 1910, 1920 vintage, mounted on the side of my garage entrance to my home, which is the main entrance to my home. Q: Does it have a locked top on it or not? A: No, sir. Q: Who ordinarily took the mail out of your mailbox at home? A: Me. Q: Have you ever taken, prior to the commencement of this trial, a letter out of that letterbox addressed to Clay Bertrand? Q: At the address at which you have lived ever since it was a municipal number, Mr. Biddison, has anyone ever lived there by the name of Cliff Boudreaux? Q: Have you ever received any mail at your address addressed to Cliff Boudreaux? MR. DYMOND: We tender the witness. Back to Shaw trial testimony Search trial database chronologically Additional resources on the trial of Clay Shaw	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line624
__label__cc	0.661442	0.338558	Home > Vol. 66 > pp. 301-315 2-L-SHAPE TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRIVAL ANGLE ESTIMATION WITH A CLASSICAL SUBSPACE ALGORITHM By H. Changuel, F. Harabi, and A. Gharsallah Full Article PDF (167 KB) This paper proposes a computationally efficient method for a two-dimensional direction of arrival estimation of multiple narrowband sources. We apply the MUSIC method which requires eigenvalues decomposition to the cross spectral matrix. This paper will employ two L-shape arrays that showed better performances than the one L-shape and the parallel shape arrays. In spite of its computational complexity, simulation results verify that the proposed subspace technique gives much better performance than the propagator method. Citation: (See works that cites this article) H. Changuel, F. Harabi, and A. Gharsallah, "2-L-Shape Two-Dimensional Arrival Angle Estimation with a Classical Subspace Algorithm," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 66, 301-315, 2006. 1. Krekel, P. and E. Deprettre, A two dimensional version of matrix pencil method to solve the DOA problem, European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, 1989. 2. Hua, Y., T. K. Sarkar, and D. D. Weiner, "An L-shape array for estimating 2-D directions of wave arrival," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagation, Vol. 39, 143-146, 1991. doi:10.1109/8.68174 3. Kedia, V. S. and B. Chandna, "A new algorithm for 2-D DOA estimation," Signal Process., Vol. 60, 325-332, 1997. 4. Li, P., B. Yu, and J. Sun, "A new method for two-dimensional array signal processing in unknown noise environments," Signal Process., Vol. 47, No. 12, 319-327, 1995. doi:10.1016/0165-1684(95)00118-2 5. Wu, Y., G. Liao, and H. C. So, "A fast algorithm for 2-D direction-of-arrival estimation," Signal Processing, Vol. 83, No. 8, 1827-1831, 2003. doi:10.1016/S0165-1684(03)00118-X 6. Liu, T. and J. Mendel, "Azimuth and elevation direction finding using arbitrary array geometries," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 46, No. 7, 2061-2065, 1998. doi:10.1109/78.700985 7. Tayem, N. and H. M. Kwon, "Azimuth and elevation angle estimation with no failure and no eigen decomposition," Signal Process., Vol. 86, No. 5, 8-16, 2005. 8. Tayem, N. and H. M. Kwon, "L-shape-2-D arrival angle estimation with propagator method," IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 53.1622-1630, No. 5, 1622-1630, 2005. doi:10.1109/TAP.2005.846804 9. Schmidt, R. O., "Multiple emitter location and signal parameter estimation," IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 34, No. 3, 276-280, 1986. doi:10.1109/TAP.1986.1143830 10. Horn, R. A. and C. R. Johnson, Matrix Analysis, Cambridge, University Press, 1989. 11. Johnson, D. H. and D. E. Dudgeon, Array Signal Processing, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993. 12. Belkebir, K., A. Baussard, and D. Premel, "Edge-preserving regularization scheme applied to modified gradient method to reconstruct two-dimensional targets from data laboratory controlled," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 54, 1-17, 2005. 13. Spencer, N. K., Nonlinear signal processing and nonuniform linear antenna array design for DOA estimation of coherent sources, Proc. NSIP-99, 849-853, 1999. 14. Abramovich, Y. I. and N. K. Spencer, Nonuniform linear antenna array design and signal processing for DOA estimation of Gaussian sources, Proc. DASP-99, 1-6, 1999. 15. Lee, K.-C., "Frequency-domain analyses of nonlinearly loaded antenna arrays using simulated annealing algorithms," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 53, 271-281, 2005. 16. SjÃ¶berg, D., "Coherent effects in single scattering and random errors in antenna technology," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 50, 13-39, 2005. 17. Selvan, K. T., "A modified three-antenna gain measurement method to simplify uncertainty estimation," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 57, 197-208, 2006.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line627
__label__cc	0.544388	0.455612	1868 Erruption Fissure Ka Lae Scenic View Jeep Road Start Pit Crater Stop 4-Wheel Slalom The start of the road Grassy Meadows with Koa A long parade of vehicles One mile of fisures and splatter Lava erupted here in 1868 Eruption followed an 8.0 earthquake Rolling grassy hills Abandoned catchment Distant Ka Lae (South Point) Curious cows They just stare and stare More hills and meadows Forested pit crater We made it through unscathed Not so lucky, this one gets towed Very stuck truck Mercedes to the rescue!!! A gathering crowd enjoys the show Another faraway view of Ka Lae And out we go! Kahuku Ranch Dedication and Scenic Drive Scenic Drive Overview The Kahuku Ranch is a working cattle ranch on the Kona side of the Big Island near South Point. The ranch spans the slopes of Mauna Loa from 2,000 feet to over 13,000 feet above sea level. The 116,000 acres of the ranch are home to a diverse ecosystem of native plants and endangered birds. The ranch area is also home to a number of ancient Hawaiian archeological sites as well magnificent natural lava formations. On July 3, 2003, the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park announced that together with The Nature Conservancy they had jointly purchased the Kahuku Ranch and included it as part of the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. On September 2, 2004, the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Parks held an official dedication ceremony that was followed by a scenic drive through a portion of the ranch land. This one-day event was open to the public, after which the ranch would be closed as it underwent 'parkification'. Because this was a one-time event, we are giving it to you here first, for the record. Second because in a couple of years this area will be open to the public as an official park it will be interesting to see what changes the park introduces as it prepares the ranch for the curious. The dedication opened with an official ceremony that included speeches by a number of notable local and political figures including the popular Senator Daniel K. Inouye. An astonishing 700+ people turned out to see the live hula, music and speeches - certainly an overwhelming amount for the park that had, for the most part, kept the announcements of the dedication to a minimum to avoid too much environmental damage. We arrived at 10:30 AM and the dedication ceremony had just begun. We were just one in a huge line of vehicles pouring into the ranch. An unbelievable number of park rangers, dressed in uniform were directing traffic and overseeing the event - some on horseback. We were directed past the first large parking area, which was obviously full, up the hill well past the ceremony to a huge old airfield landing strip. At about noon a car or two pulled up to the start of the drive and we quickly got into line and were relieved to be the 3rd vehicle. With 700 people there were probably 300 to 400 cars and we had no idea how many people were intending to do the drive (it turns out that well over 100 cars participated in the scenic drive). At about 12:15 the line had grown to the point where the rangers, who were waiting for the dignitaries to arrive and go first, decided to let the public go on ahead. We had been given maps with the trail marked and several stopping points of interest laid out. Each stopping point featured rangers to help explain the area and items of interest. The drive itself consisted of a 5.3 mile part that was open to any car, followed by a another 5 or so miles open only to 4-wheel drive, high clearance vehicles. If you did not have a vehicle capable of the final 5 miles you were turned back to return the way you came, otherwise the 5 rough miles completed a loop that took you back to the main road. At this point we reset our odometers. The first 1.9 miles of road went by open land that was a combination of lava from the 1868 eruption and grassland with small 'Ōhi'a Lehua growing about. At 1.9 miles was the first stop on the park map. 1868 Eruption Fissure Odometer 1.9 From odometer 1.7 to odometer 1.9, on the left side is a tall fissure that runs along the ground. On April 7, 1868, this fissure opened and released huge quantities of lava for 15 days straight. The flow burnt everything as it moved towards the ocean, including the complete destruction of a fishing village. This was a part of the massive 1868 eruption of Mauna Loa along its Southwest Rift Zone. It all started on March 27, 1868 with constant earthquakes. Day after day earthquakes shook the island but on April 2nd the most devastating earthquake, estimated at over 8.0 and the largest earthquake to ever hit Hawai'i in recorded time, shook the island. This massive earthquake was followed by thousands of smaller earthquakes over a few hour period. The earthquakes caused massive damage in Ka'ū, including a half mile wide section of hill side which broke loose and avalanched an estimated 3 miles in 3 minutes. The avalanche completely buried a town to a depth of 20 feet including 10 houses, 31 people and 500 cattle. The earthquakes also caused a 75 mile stretch of shoreline around Ka'ū to subside about 7 feet, submerging many costal villages. Approximatley 108 houses were destroyed by the submerging land and the resulting tsunami and 46 people drowned. On April 7, 1868, a mile long fissure opened in Kahuku Ranch - and this is the fissure you see before you. The fissure fountained lava along its entire stretch as high as 200 feet in the air, setting all vegetation around the fissure on fire. As the flow reached the ocean, 9 miles from the fissure, it created a small temporary new island that had about 30 cattle trapped on it that could not be rescued for 10 days. The ocean entry of the flow also created Pu'u Hou, the largest littoral cone on the Big Island at over 262 feet tall. An estimated 24 square miles of lava poured from the fissure. Ka Lae Scenic View Odometer 3.8 As we drove from the fissure towards odometer 3.8 we entered a very pleasant grassy rolling meadow dotted with Koa and 'Ōhi'a Lehua trees. As this is a working ranch we saw many head of cattle - all of which were intensely curious and were staring at the huge number of vehicles that were streaming past. In one beautiful section, where the Koa trees were nicely spaced among the grass, behind each Koa peeked a cow head looking the procession, giving the impression of a setting in some bizarre spy novel. We noted that the fencing consists of not only your standard ranch barbed wire fence, but also two curious low strands. These turned out to be electric fence aimed at keeping wild pigs and goats at bay as well as keeping the cows in the right places. Much of the fencing around the ranch is electrified and the power is supplied by an occasional solar paneled device. At odometer 3.8 the park had setup picnic tables near an abandoned and crumbling catchment tank. It was a very pretty spot that offered a stunning view of Ka Lae (South Point) and the ocean and many families took an opportunity at this spot to have lunch and enjoy the wonderful view. Jeep Road Start Odometer 5.3 From the scenic view of Ka Lae to odometer 5.3 the land continues with the beautiful grassy rolling hills, Koa trees and occasional small forests, and lots of curious cattle. A very picturesque and pleasurable drive, and most of the vehicles by this point had spaced out to the point that often you could not see a vehicle ahead or behind you. At odometer 5.3 the park stopped all vehicles and informed each of us that the rest of the trail required a 4-wheel drive vehicle with high clearance. Any vehicle that did not meet the merits of the trail was turned back to return the way it came. The rest of us were allowed on with a stern warning to give plenty of room to the vehicle ahead as there are many wet and slippery areas where you can not predict what will happen to the vehicle ahead - and as you will see, how true their warning turned out to be. Pit Crater Stop Odometer 6.3 From the 5.3 mile part to 6.3 we were really humored by all the warnings that the park had given us. The road was a bit grassy, but any car could easily have navigated it, regardless of clearance. We wondered what all the big 4-wheel hype had been about as we enjoyed the rolling hills and beautiful scenery. As we approached odometer 6.3 the road got a bit more hilly, but nothing any car could not navigate. At 6.3 the park had setup another stop point at a fabulous pit crater. Many people, as did we, chose this location for their lunch break. About 40 feet away from the parking area was a huge pit crater formed when the roof of a magma holding area collapsed suddenly. The resulting pit crater was very large, hundreds of feet across and at least 100 feet deep and was densely forested. The park rangers talked about the native plant and bird life that live in the area and the park's plans for protecting the area to encourage native plant and bird survival. Near the pit crater another curious herd of cattle stood eyeing the crowd of people and SUVs. A ranch hand was sitting patiently on an all terrain vehicle waiting for the cows to get up enough nerve to enter their holding pen. It looked like he would have to wait a very long time. Pit Crater at Kahuku Ranch 4-Wheel Slalom Odometer 7.2 Back in the vehicle, our bellies full, we continued past the now thoroughly bored rancher and down the jeep road. After a little bit we encountered a bit of a traffic backup. While it was difficult to see due to twists in the road and roadside trees, we could see that apparently people were sitting and waiting. Finally one vehicle would go ahead and the next would sit and wait. As we approached we could see that the road ahead went downwards fairly steeply and was very wet and muddy. Furthermore, it was pretty rutted with deep tracks on either side. Obviously this is what the park ranger warning had been about and people were mostly heeding the advice to let the person ahead get all the way through before continuing. When it became our turn, we started down the muddy slippery slope and found that within a few feet our treads had become totally encased in mud. At this point we started doing what we saw the car ahead of us do... we started sliding not only forward but a bit side to side as well. Unfortunatley the person behind us did not heed the rangers warning and followed on our heels having to slam on their brakes and slide to keep from hitting us. The slippery slope would level out in places, causing another backlog of cars, which did nothing to help the ones coming from behind. Each level spot had another muddy decline after it, some much worse than others. But once we got to the bottom we decided that it had been pretty fun and both agreed that indeed, the rangers had been right on track. After the slide and before the 7.2 mile mark a long low rock wall appeared on our left. This wall marks the boundary between the Ka'ū Forest Reserve and the ranch. At the 7.2 mile mark the park had setup another stopping area where they had an exhibit of native plants and talked about how plants would be protected and the anticipated synergy between the new park land and the adjoining forest reserve. At the 7.2 mile mar was a right hand turn and again, a large backup of traffic. This was a fairly steep downward slope and we were about 8th in line but could not see the reason everyone had stopped. A ranger vehicle was a few vehicles ahead of us and the road was visible on a distant upslope but no cars appeared to be going up. After a bit, we realized that indeed the line was moving, but very slowly. A car would start down and go out of view and the line would not move at all. Time would pass but no car would be seen, then finally we would see it going up the distant slope. We wondered if there was perhaps a stream that had to be crossed, but still could not see. Slowly, the line moved forward and the backup behind us was getting larger and larger. Then the ranger went, again time past and finally he appeared on the far slope and pulled off the road and got out and walked back down out of view. Even with only two cars ahead, we could not really make out what was happening until the first car went down and we moved forward a bit. Suddenly we were over the lip and could see. The road went down a very sleep slope at the bottom of which was a mud puddle and a very muddy upslope. A few people including the ranger were at the base near the mud puddle and as the cars ahead of us went down you could see the ranger giving instructions on how to drive. Each car ahead of us had trouble but appeared to follow the ranger's advice and made it up the other slope. Now it was our turn, and down we went with mud-caked treads. Near the bottom we were told to avoid going in the very long grass as the side of the road because it hid several deep holes - but instead go through the mud puddle then quickly veer left and straight to avoid another hidden hole. We did and up the other side we went. We pulled off the road near the cop car as this looked like it was going to be entertaining. Behind us, by a car or two, was a very unusual Mercedes truck that was bright orange and resembled an oversized Tonka Truck. The truck had huge tires, deep treads and even a snorkel so it could go through water. It, of course, had absolutely no problems with the road - totally amazing. It pulled off the road near us as well and the driver got out and headed down the hill while his wife got out and joined us. At this point it started to get very entertaining. With each vehicle the road was slowly getting worse and worse, and the backup of vehicles longer and longer. Now, about one out of every five vehicles was not getting through and was getting totally stuck. Many did not heed the ranger's advice and would get stuck in the mud holes. The ranger and others would try to push them, very dangerous because everything was slipping forward, backward and to the side - and sometimes would get them going. In the situations where they were truly stuck, the owner of the Mercedes Tonka Truck backed down, winched up the car and drug them up the hill. As time went on, cars who successfully made it up the hill often pulled off and joined us - while just about everyone who got stuck kept going. After a bit we had a pretty nice crowd on our side cheering on each attempt and groaning and offering our expert advice when people got stuck. The other side, due to the huge backup, also had a cheering and groaning crowd forming. Time after time we watched the Tonka Truck go down the hill and relentlessly pull another stuck vehicle out. Strangely, we noted that most of the vehicles that got stuck were Chevy and Ford, while the other makes were getting through. At the highlight of the event a man in a beat up truck, when it was his turn, decided that he had a better plan and would drive completely on the wide grassy area to the right of the road. He gunned the truck and tore down the hill while the ranger and people at the bottom scrambled out of the way and were yelling for him to get back on the road. Everyone around us instantly realized what was going to happen as the man was speeding to the base, and towards a large hidden hole in the grass. Upon reaching the bottom, and the hole, he hit it solidly and came to an instant stop. Everyone hooted and hollered and down the hill the Tonka Truck rumbled and had to first tow him backwards out of the hole, and then forwards up the hill. The driver hid his face as he went by but you could see he was laughing. All in all, this final event seemed to be totally enjoyed by everyone involved. The people who were successful would cheer and yell, "that's how you do it" and the unsuccessful would still be laughing. The Tonka Truck driver seemed to be enjoying himself but it was obvious that it would be a very long afternoon for everyone involved. We heard that they had stopped allowing 4-wheel vehicles onto the jeep trail to stop the backup of traffic, but many many cars still were waiting to go down the slope when we decided to move on. If it were not for the wonderful man in the Mercedes truck who donated his time, gas and truck for pulling out all of the stuck SUVs, this very entertaining event would have probably come out a totally different way. Within a mile or two after the mud bath, through more beautiful meadows and stunning views of the coast, we returned to the main road at a junction and followed our original way in, back out. It will be interesting to see how the park changes the ranch land and expands the roads and trails. We applaud the park for opening the ranch to the public in its wild state and allowing us to enjoy the beauty and nature of the ranch. Referenced Parks and Beaches Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Referenced Hikes & Trails 1974 Lava Tree Trail 'Ainahou Ranch Devil's Throat Lava Tube Tumulus Puhimau Thermal Hot Spot Pu'u Loa Petroglyphs Referenced Scenic Drives Hilina Pali Road This page is named 'Drives.kahuku'. 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__label__cc	0.645409	0.354591	Home Liberia Government Type: Republic. Independence: July 26, 1847. Constitution: January 6, 1986. Political parties: 30 registered political parties. 1. Legislative 2. Executive 3. Judiciary Government and political conditions Liberia has a bicameral legislature consisting of 73 representatives and 30 senators. Each Representatives serve a six-years term. Senior senators are elected for nine-year terms. junior Senators are elected for six-year term. The judiciary is divided into four levels, including justices of the peace, courts of record (magistrate courts), courts of first instance (circuit and specialty courts), and the Supreme Court. Traditional courts and lay courts exist in rural areas of the country. Principal Government Ministries/Agencies Ministry of Post and Telecommunication Ministry of Internal Affairs Ministry of Public Works Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Ministry of Commerce and Industry Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs Ministry of State and Chief of Staff Ministry of Land, Mines and Energy Ministry of Youth and Sports Ministry of Gender and Development Ministry of Transportation National Investment Commission Bureau of the Budget General Service Agency Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization Liberia National Police National Fire Service Governance Commission National Elections Commission Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission The National anthem of Liberia The Liberian constitution	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line640
__label__cc	0.707011	0.292989	Home Featured Tailored Solutions For Customers: This Is The Yale Answer To The Ceramic Industry’s Logistics Needs. Tailored Solutions For Customers: This Is The Yale Answer To The Ceramic Industry’s Logistics Needs. on: October 19, 2018 In: Featured, Warehousing Cersaie, the International Exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom Furnishings, is a key event in the ceramic industry’s calendar. This year’s exhibition took place in Bologna, Italy, on 23-27 September and boasted visitor numbers of 112,104 with a 1.6% increase in international visitors. The ceramic industry is one of the most active sectors in Italian manufacturing and the district of Sassuolo, near Modena, is one of the world’s major production centres in the ceramic tile market, accounting for 80% of Italian national production. In addition to ceramics businesses, the district includes production and complementary service activities related to the tile cycle: from the instrumentation of goods and technology for ceramics, to the design and decoration of the tiles, the production of glazes and colours, product packaging and distribution and logistics. This allows for a more rapid and consistent supply chain, projected to develop products that meet customer needs. The Yale® product range for warehouse logistics follows the same innovative trend of the ceramics sector, where the change concerns the timing of production and storage needs, product performance and the handling of fragile loads. Supply chain management in ceramic logistics needs to be increasingly performing well and reliably, with a service-oriented approach that involves a strong client experience from container to the customer. These are heavy-duty applications with sustained rhythms, requiring maximum precision in storage and retrieval time, as well as attentiveness of the operators. For the ideal management of materials handling and logistics in this industry, Yale Europe Materials Handling offers various solutions which are the result of continuous research into the development of new products that meet the needs of specific industrial applications. The right solution for specific applications Having reliable products you can put your trust in is an essential point for Yale. For example, to celebrate the fine heritage of the Veracitor VX, Yale presented its new design – the Veracitor VX Gold Edition – at its exclusive This is Yale event held in Germany on 19 and 20 September. The new truck includes a feature bundle projected to enhance productivity and to provide customers with the familiarity of the current established models with added features only increasing the trust they can place in the truck. Fragile and high-value loads can be handled with ease using the Return to Set Tilt (RST) feature on Gold Edition trucks specified with e-Hydraulics. The forks can be held at any pre-set angle within the tilt range, making unloading and offloading simple and allowing the operator to ensure the forks and load are level, helping to reduce accidental damage. Continuous Stability Enhancement (CSE) provides excellent lateral stability, enabling operators to manoeuvre the truck confidently over uneven surfaces and the isolated powertrain and low vibration seat allow the operator to work comfortably for longer. Operator comfort and productivity is central to the Yale design philosophy and operators of the Veracitor VX Series are afforded exceptional visibility by the Hi-Vis™ mast, ease of access with a low step height and benefit from a fully adjustable contoured armrest and interactive dash display once seated. With an eye on continuous improvement, Yale has announced a series of updates to its 8-16 tonne capacity lift truck, with a new design that offers optimal visibility. Lift chains on the new-design, high-capacity lift trucks have been moved to the outside of the mast, increasing line of vision for the operator between the mast channels. The position of the channels and cross-members have also been optimised allowing for more space between the channels to further support operator visibility. The updates to the mast enable the operator to move confidently and precisely when handling loads. The repositioned chains and open carriage feature allow the driver to look through as well as over the carriage, providing them with a good view of the forks and the load For line-feed operations and just-in-sequence and just-in-time applications, Yale has expanded its tow tractor range with two new rider models, offering greater towing capacities. The three-wheel MT70 and four-wheel MT80 tow tractors can be customised to support indoor to outdoor runs. The MT70 tow tractor can be fitted with roll-up PVC doors for outdoor use and offers outstanding manoeuvrability. The four-wheel MT80 tow tractor has a cab option with hinged doors that can be locked, and provides stability over rough or uneven surfaces. The ergonomics-centric philosophy of Yale is also present, with an easy one-step access into the tractor and a comfortable suspended seat. Both models are delivered fully prepped to work with the Yale Vision telemetry system, which provides convenient web-based asset management from anywhere, at any time. Further developments have been carried out by Yale Europe Materials Handling with the two new options for its pedestrian power pallet truck range. The new precision-control tiler head and noise-reduction options allow the trucks to be used in a wider range of applications that will enable them to operate even more efficiently in applications with limited space or where quiet manoeuvres are essential. Ideal for operators working in congested store aisles or trailers, the precision-control tiller head is designed to be used in an upright position, reducing the space required to operate the truck. There is no need for the operator to keep moving the handle up and down, making the truck well-suited for picking applications in corridors and narrow spaces. Yale is delighted that it’s now even easier for its customers to find the right solution to meet their needs within this growing industry. For further information on the range of materials handling equipment from Yale visit www.yale.com. Lack Of Brexit Progress A Threat To Trade, Says FTA. 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__label__cc	0.651893	0.348107	Health Research Institute Project “Development of a Model for the Strengthening of the Capacities to Identify and Reduce Health Inequalities” Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine Address: Tilžės g. 18, Kaunas LT-47181 Email: aplinkos.katedra@lsmuni.lt Prof. Rūta Ustinavičienė Email: ruta.ustinaviciene@lsmuni.lt Phone: +370 37 327360 Study administrator Sigutė Šuliauskė Department of Hygiene and bacteriology was founded at 1922 in Lithuanian University. First head of the department was professor A.Jurgeliūnas. From 1934 up to 1968 the Hygiene Department head was professor J. Šopauskas, who formed the main research and methodological directions of the department. From 1968 up to 1980 head of the department was associated professor J.Rauba. In 1977 Department of Hygiene was united with department of Social hygiene and Health care organisation. Head of this department from 1980 up to 1986 and from 1990 up to 2004 was professor V.Obelenis, from 1986 up to 1991 professor J.Petrauskienė. At 1991 Hygiene Department, which later, in 1995 was renamed into Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine was restored. From 2004 the department is headed by professor Rūta Ustinavičienė The main research areas of the Department scientists are investigations of hygienic work conditions, the evaluation of the psychophysiological changes in working organism, the analysis of general and occupation - related morbidity at textile, metal processing, chemistry enterprises, transport, wood processing plants and other industries. Research works are also concentrated to analysis of cancerogenesis, cancer epidemiology in various occupations, health effects of computer work, occupational medicine at health institutions, work ergonomic and musculoskeletal problems. Department is in collaboration with the Lithuanian higher education institutions - VU Institute of Public Health, Kaunas University of Technology Department of Ergonomic, Distance study center. Department of Environmental and Occupational medicine is in active co-operation with the Ministries of Social Security and Labour, Ministry of Health, Department of Public health authorities. Department staff is involved in the preparation of new legislation and hygiene projects. Department employees are working at the Central Occupational Medicine Expert Commission under Ministry of Health. International contacts are maintained and developed with the Polish Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Latvian Occupational Medicine Center, Porto university researchers. Department actively participates in the International Health Promoting Hospitals Network. Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine is teaching Environmental medicine, Occupational medicine, Health ecology, Ecology, Health care workers occupational health, Healthy diet and Nutrition basics, Travel medicine, Environmental toxicology, Children environment and health, Baltic Sea environment and health, Personal and Military hygiene, Ergonomics, Basic of Health and Safety at work and other disciplines. The main research areas: Impact of the environmental factors to human health; Impact of occupational factors to workers health; Impact of climatic and heliophysical factors to human health; Stress and bullying: genesis, development, psychophysiological diagnostic, influence to the health and prophylaxis; Health problems working with computers; Work conditions and health of office workers; Cancerogenes and epidemiology of occupational cancer; The investigations of ergonomic, psychophysiologic factors at industry; Work conditions and health of medical workers.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line646
__label__cc	0.634416	0.365584	Preserving Minnesota's Agricultural Land: Proposed Policy Solutions (June 30, 2012) By Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) This report analyzes Minnesota's existing farmland preservation tools and proposes policy solutions to achieve a more comprehensive approach to preserving farmland in Minnesota. Lulu Sales Rank: 228502 Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) (Standard Copyright License) Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) 8.5 wide x 11 tall http://www.lulu.com/shop/farmers-legal-action-group-inc-flag/preserving-minnesotas-agricultural-land-proposed-policy-solutions-june-30-2012/paperback/product-20231827.html?ppn=1 farmland preservation More From Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) Farmers' Guide to Farm... By Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) Paperback: Farmers' Guide to... By Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) Paperback: Planting the Seeds for... By Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) Paperback:	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line647
__label__cc	0.539434	0.460566	Norway - Full Moon 76 - 12/19/02 The Reilly Express Luftwaffel Records Rock is back! Following hot on the trails of the new breed of angry young guitar worshippers like Gluecifer, The Hives, The White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club comes this brazen lot from my hometown, Trondheim. Guitars, drums and a couple of fuzzboxes. One foot firmly planted in the US sixties garage mayhem and the other foot flirting with UK punk. A territory well explored by a host of Swedish bands in the eighties. So it's a case of another band who are inventing the wheel once again. Nothing wrong with that if you're tight and got a couple of songs strong enough. And The Reilly Express is tight enough, but outside a few truly cool songs most of Dizzy sounds like a late entry in the Pebbles or High in the Mid Sixties series. Exceptions are "The Price", which sounds like something The Litter could have whipped up in their heyday. "Stargazer", where they stray into some really amazing psychedelic landscapes. "V8D8" which is just a good song with some surprising parts and the closer, "Dizzy", where they mix garagerock with heavy Black Sabbath type riffs and Black Metal moods complete with church-bells, lightening and howling winds. Probably just done for fun with their tongues firmly planted in their cheeks, but manages to give the record a perfect ending and makes me want to buy the next one. Copyright © 2002 Killer DumDum Boys: Blodig Alvor (LP+7" 1988/Re 2015 LTD 500) Jardine: Look in the window ... (LP 1969/Re 2007 LTD 100) Mona & Maria: My Sun (LP 2013 LTD 100) New Tweedy Bros: The New Tweedy Bros! (LP 1968/Re 2000 LTD 500) Opium Cartel: Ardor (LP 2014) White Willow: Ignis Fatuus (2xLP 1995/Re 2010 LTD 100) Gustav Lorentzen: September 28, 1947 - April 21, 2010	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line648
__label__wiki	0.839594	0.839594	Waipahu Baseball Ranked Fourth So Far In Post-season Jack Danilewicz on July 4, 2012 at 12:01 am The relaxed air that prevails throughout the Waipahu baseball program this summer is definitely by design. “We want to win, but we also want to make it a fun summer for the kids,” longtime head coach Milton Takenaka said. “The kids are all coming off of an intense spring season, so it hasn’t been a matter of having to win. We just wanted to get into the (post-season) tournament, and then it will be all business.” The Marauders were 13-4 in American Legion League play (19-and-under division) as of late last week, with two games left in the season. The playoffs begin July 16. Waipahu is the defending Hawaii American Legion League state champion after a strong run at this time last year. It also captured the Division II state title during the spring season in May, but have a different look to their lineup, as a handful of players from nearby Pearl City and Moanalua also are in the fold for the summer. Recent Waipahu graduates Dylan Sugimoto, Drake Yoshioka and Jarinn Abreu are all back, after being huge contributors in the spring. “They’re doing well – it’s a little less tense for them than their spring season,” Takenaka said. “Dylan has pitched a lot, but we haven’t needed to pitch Jarinn since we have a lot of arms.” Also logging big innings this summer are Sumi Pruett, Kai Kealoha and Isaac Shim (all Pearl City 2011); Bryson Yasui and Austyn Nagamine (Moanalua 2012); and Bronson Shim (Moanalua 2011). Takenaka labeled pitching as Waipahu’s strength this summer. “We really haven’t hit the ball that well yet, but the kids who have been pitching have been doing well,” he said. Waipahu found itself in a similar position a year ago, as pitching carried the team into the playoffs before they peaked, offensively, en route to capturing the state tournament. Waipahu’s 13-4 record placed them fourth in the ALL standings as of late last week, behind Mid-Pacific, Kamehameha and Castle. Campbell and Kalani also have been playing their best baseball of late and could be factors in the post-season. “There are a lot of good teams, but I think we have a good chance with the kids we have,” Takenaka said. “Mid-Pac and Kamehameha are always there, and Iolani has been playing well, too. It should be a good tournament.” WestWest Oahu Sports The Doc Is A Paddling Photog, Too Prayers On Wings Benefit	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line649
__label__wiki	0.958536	0.958536	Pompeo, North Korean official holding full day of meetings in New York Josh Lederman, Matthew Lee and Christopher Bodeen \| The Associated Press North Korea's Kim Yong Chol, center, leaves a hotel in New York, Wednesday. The senior North Korean official arrived in New York on Wednesday in the highest-level official visit to the United States in 18 years, as President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un sought to salvage prospects for a high-stakes nuclear summit. ANDRES KUDACKI / AP NEW YORK — Top American and North Korean officials are holding a full day of meetings in New York on Thursday aimed at deciding whether a summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un can be salvaged. Ahead of the meetings, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the North's former military intelligence chief, Kim Yong Chol, had dinner Wednesday night. Kim had flown in from Beijing and Pompeo from Washington. It's the highest-level official North Korean visit to the United States in 18 years. Kim, the former military intelligence chief and one of the North Korean leader's closest aides, landed midafternoon Wednesday on an Air China flight from Beijing. During his unusual visit, Kim had dinner for about an hour and a half with Pompeo. The two planned a “day full of meetings” Thursday, the White House said. Their talks will be aimed at determining whether a meeting between Trump and Kim Jong Un, originally scheduled for June 12 but later canceled by Trump, can be restored, U.S. officials have said. “Good working dinner with Kim Yong Chol in New York tonight,” Pompeo tweeted Wednesday. “Steak, corn, and cheese on the menu.” The talks come as preparations for the highly anticipated summit in Singapore were barreling forward on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, despite lingering uncertainty about whether it will really occur, and when. As Kim and Pompeo met in New York, other U.S. teams were meeting with North Korean officials in Singapore and in the heavily fortified Korean Demilitarized Zone. “If it happens, we'll certainly be ready,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said of the Singapore summit. Regarding the date for the meeting, she added, “We're going to continue to shoot for June 12th.” North Korea's flurry of diplomatic activity following a torrid run in nuclear weapons and missile tests in 2017 suggests that Kim Jong Un is eager for sanctions relief to build his economy and the international legitimacy the summit with Trump would provide. But there are lingering doubts on whether Kim will ever fully relinquish his nuclear arsenal, which he may see as his only guarantee of survival in a region surrounded by enemies. Pompeo, Trump's former CIA chief, has traveled to Pyongyang twice in recent weeks for meetings with Kim Jong Un, and has said there is a “shared understanding” between the two sides about what they hope to achieve in talks. South Korean media speculated that Pompeo could make a third trip to Pyongyang and that Kim Yong Chol was carrying a personal letter from Kim Jong Un and might push to travel to Washington to meet with Trump. North Korea's mission to the United Nations in New York is its sole diplomatic presence in the United States. That suggests Kim might have chosen to first go to New York because it would make it easier for him to communicate with officials in Pyongyang, North Korea's capital. North Korea and the United States are still technically at war and have no diplomatic ties because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. Trump views a summit as a legacy-defining opportunity to make the nuclear deal that has evaded others, but he pledged to walk away from the meeting if he believed the North wasn't serious about discussing dismantling its nuclear program. After the North's combative statements, there was debate inside the Trump administration about whether it marked a real turn to belligerence or a feint to see how far Kim Jong Un could push the U.S. in the lead-up to the talks. Trump had mused that Kim's “attitude” had changed after the North Korean leader's surprise visit to China two weeks ago, suggesting China was pushing Kim away from the table. Trump's open letter to Kim last week canceling the summit, the aides said, was designed to pressure the North on the international stage for appearing to have cold feet. White House officials maintain that Trump was hopeful the North was merely negotiating but that he was prepared for the letter to mark the end of the two-month flirtation. Instead, the officials said, it brought both sides to the table with increasing seriousness, as they work through myriad logistical and policy decisions to keep June 12 a viable option for the summit. Kim Yong Chol is a vice chairman of the North Korean ruling party's central committee. The last official of his stature to visit the United States was Jo Myong Rok, the late first vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, who visited Washington in 2000, South Korea's Unification Ministry said. The White House emphasized that it has remained in close contact with South Korean and Japanese officials as preparations for the talks continue. Sanders said Trump will host Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan on June 7 to coordinate their thinking ahead of the summit. Trump hosted South Korean President Moon Jae-in last week. Moon, who has lobbied hard for nuclear negotiations between Trump and Kim Jong Un, held a surprise meeting with the North Korean leader on Saturday in an effort to keep the summit alive. North Koreans to meet Trump; deliver letter from leader Amid reports of North Korean purge, there are reasons for caution Trump Japan visit to focus on personal ties, not substance Moon to carry private message from Kim Jong Un to Trump South Korea's Moon wants 'heart-to-heart' summit talks with Kim Could Trump meet Kim in New York this month? AP takes a look South Korea: Joint US drills suspended to aid talks with North Trump declares via Twitter the North Korea nuclear threat is over US seeks to assuage Asian allies after North Korea summit Trump, Kim shake hands, commit to 'complete denuclearization' Donald Trump meets Kim Jong Un Trump expresses optimism amid final Kim summit preparations North Korea gets first big dose of Trump summit news Trump plays down need for preparation for Kim summit North Korean military may benefit from Kim's charm offensive Trump and Kim shake hands in scene complex as their rivalry The Latest: High-level North Korean official arrives in NY Top North Korean official heads to US for pre-summit talks Diplomacy heats up before summit, with trips by US, North Korea Related Topics: Kim Yong Chol, Mike Pompeo, North Korea	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line656
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__label__wiki	0.746716	0.746716	Graal théâtres: Paul Griffiths on Kaija Saariaho, Florence Delay, and Jacques Roubaud by Paul Griffiths Kaija Saariaho's violin concerto, “Graal théâtre,” is titled after the book that inspired it, a series of texts by French writers Florence Delay and Jacques Roubaud, in which the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and that of the Grail are combined. The following piece, which appears in Music & Literature no. 5, is a response to this collaborative project. Graal théâtre by Florence Delay and Jacques Roubaud (Gallimard, May 2005) Galehaut: I am a character. Violin: Perhaps I am too. I have no physical existence. I am not an object, though I need a certain class of objects—wooden boxes with strings and a bow—to be heard in the real world. I am represented, bodied forth, by these objects, just as you are by a voice, even a silently reading voice. I am not to be identified with the object that renders me, nor with the musician, any more than you are with the voice relating your words, or the reader or actor whose voice this is. When Kaija Saariaho describes her 1994 composition Graal théâtre as being “for violin and orchestra,” or as a “violin concerto,” we may imagine her to have had in mind a musical instrument in its actuality, including its tuning and its responses, and we may suppose her to have been considering also Gidon Kremer, her destined performer, but she will have been thinking not only of but through these manifest conditions of her work, to me, to an entity whose features are not materials and dimensions, not personality and technique, but sound, and a design for sound, and experiences of that sound through time. Graal Théâtre / Château de l'Âme / Amers by Kaija Saariaho :composer Esa-Pekka Salonen: conductor Gidon Kremer: violin Anssi Karttunen: cello Dawn Upshaw: soprano (Sony, August 2001) The note she places in the score is almost explicit about this, where she remarks that “the title expresses the tension I feel between the efforts of the composer when writing music and the theatrical aspect of a performance, especially in the case of a concerto where the soloist is playing a major role, both physically and musically.” On the one side, then, the graal of as-yet-unrealized music, where the action is that of the imagining mind and the traveling pen, moving in a world where instruments and performers are all still in the future; on the other, the théâtre of a concert hall, a show, a virtuoso converting difficulty into astonishment, an audience in attendance and attention. Tension, however, implies communication. I feel within me the stirrings of this imminent théâtre, even though I belong to the domain of the graal. We are virtual beings, you and I, living out our lives in a world as impalpable—and as vivid—as that of dreams or memory. The analogy may be supported by how Saariaho, thinking back to the book by Florence Delay and Jacques Roubaud from which she took her title, remembers an episode of dream interpretation.¹ Galehaut: I dream, but even in dreaming I am dreamt. Violin: Exactly so. Galehaut: Is that why my great love—not just the object of my love, but the feeling itself, in all its strength and multiplicity—remains out of my reach?² Violin: No. Our deeds and our hesitations, our enlightenments and our incomprehensions, are all written for us. Galehaut: Not entirely. Galehaut cannot be forced by any poet or romance writer into the shape of Galahad or Gawain, of Merlin or of Morgan. Galehaut cannot be made twin to Lancelot. I know this. Violin: You are right. I cannot be Harp, cannot be Trombone, cannot be Cello. We are defined, and then redefined in each telling of our story. Galehaut: What is your story? Violin: I have many, but one is perhaps not so unlike yours, of being placed with another, Orchestra, in a striving for union that can never be achieved. It is a story that has been told by Bach, by Mozart, by Beethoven and by Mendelssohn, by Tchaikovsky and Brahms and Sibelius and Elgar, by Berg and Bartók and Stravinsky and Schoenberg, and then by countless more in recent times. It is always the same story. It is always a different story. Saariaho’s telling, perhaps more than any other, has me aware of these predecessors, and even of concertos that were, twenty years ago, yet to come. Again, her note says something of this, when she speaks of how she wanted “to bring an idea of the violin concerto, a genre with so many moving and skillful examples, into my musical framework and language” and of how she was encouraged to achieve this by the example of “Roubaud’s interpretation of the old legend.” So there is another union here, of a venerable story, authorless for having had so many authors, and a new redaction, personal for being the work of an individual. It is the same for my story as for yours. Galehaut: It is, indeed, but let us be clear that for neither of us is there an original version. A child gathers dew-wetted spider webs in a looped twig, until eventually the layers of silk and water cohere into a mirror. Such is my story, and yours: an image created by many tellings, not to be found in any one of them. Once again we have a graal, unfindable, partially realized in so many théâtres, which together are responsible for the mysterious existence of the graal. Violin: I accept what you say. By the time my concerto story was being told by Antonio Vivaldi, by J.S. Bach, and by Giuseppe Tartini, it had already been circulating for two or more generations. Galehaut: How does it begin, this story of yours? Violin: It begins when I speak. Or it begins when Orchestra is preparing for me to speak, inviting me to speak, waiting for me to speak. And, always, I speak. I have to do so. I want to do so. There can be no concerto story unless I take part in its telling. Galehaut: You see, it is different for me. My story could be told without my participation—even, perhaps, in such a work as the Delay-Roubaud Graal théâtre, which has the form of a playscript, though these authors do indeed give me much to say (as well as much to hold in silence). Kaija Saariaho with Gidon Kremer at the Maison de la Radio, Paris. Courtesy of Kaija Saariaho. Violin: It might be possible to imagine a violin concerto without me—or, rather, with me as an absent protagonist, evoked, gestured toward, even partly imitated by Orchestra. However, no such work yet exists. Always I am there. And in the Saariaho Graal théâtre, I am there from the start. The work opens with one of my fundamental sounds, the A on the treble staff, the note to which my second string is tuned, and it is this string that produces the note, an “open string,” unstopped by the violinist’s left hand. This note oscillates with harmonics played on my next string down, tuned to D: the A an octave higher, and then the D a fourth above that. At this initiating moment, both strings are bowed close to the bridge, to produce a constricted tone—“nasal” is the word commonly used—suggestive of a coarser instrument: a folk fiddle or perhaps a medieval vielle. The whole sound—tremulous, emanating directly from my tuning, here in the present, but sounding out also from a distant past, with the A stationary and harmonics flickering above it, the sound level, having risen from inaudibility to modest volume—conveys a sense of “once upon a time.” Galehaut: Or of you becoming yourself, testing yourself, beginning to feel for the center and the limits of yourself. As we all do, when our stories begin. Violin: Indeed. Then I start to spin a fragment of melody—a scalewise ascent from A to B flat to C sharp—over and around a drone D, conforming to a scale remote from the concert hall in which this théâtre will be taking place: the “double harmonic scale,” also known as the “Arabic scale.” This first step, from raw sound to incipient melody, is significant in its direction, for it may remind us that bowed string instruments probably entered European culture by way of the Islamic world. From telling of my sound, I have moved on to tell of my history. And as I develop this story, the story of my arrival from the East, I gain echo and encouragement from Orchestra. This, my companion, has been there from the beginning, but almost unnoticeable: a silver fizz of triangle when I started, an antique cymbal chiming with my A. Now Orchestra comes forward, its harp concurring with me, its drums pressing me on. At the same time, the exotic reference is dissolving. It will always be there, right to the end. This music remembers everything, and most certainly it remembers itself. But the quasi-oriental pattern becomes transformed, and extended into something larger, no longer a more or less specific cultural marker. A tendency to rise, also there from the beginning, finds its endpoint in a high F sharp, a note that had been picked out by an antique cymbal within the music’s first minute. On that note I am now joined by glockenspiel and piano, for still Orchestra is putting forward only resonant percussive instruments and drums, joined recently, and almost imperceptibly, by low strings. This F sharp is a point of brilliance to which I keep returning all through the piece, finding it in this register and also an octave higher, as a destination that can be only glimpsed, caught for a fleeting instant, not fully attained. Galehaut: A desire that cannot properly be felt, so much the less consummated. Violin: It may be, but other metaphors are possible, or other understandings of the metaphor that is music. You encounter my story through the doorway of your own. Others will do so as well, but all of them differently. Music welcomes this, especially Saariaho’s, rooted as it is in basic elements of sound quality, melodic motif, and regular pulse, and moving through a time whose depth is measured in centuries. Rotation, from the first, has been crucial to how this music proceeds, repeating an idea with progressive change, and so moving from one harmony to another—from a pure octave at the beginning to an “Arabic” motif with four notes in play and now to a melody that, repeatedly touching on that high F sharp, is formed from a six-note scale that includes the notes of the F sharp major triad (F sharp—A sharp—C sharp) but has a minor sixth (D) as well as the appropriate second degree (G sharp) and fourth (B). This is a scale from no known location, and residual elements of the major-minor system are placed in question partly by the shape of the melody, holding the notional keynote high, and partly by the accompaniment, which, in reiterations that include an echo of the “Arabic” figment on glockenspiel, adds five more notes to the harmony. We are in Saariaholand, an iridescent world, where streaks of the familiar are destabilized in shimmer. I find myself unsettled here, and at home. Galehaut: So it is with me, in my Graal théâtre, where the Age of Chivalry has all the conveniences of high-speed travel and psychoanalysis. Violin: And the resemblance is even stronger, for my Graal théâtre, while reverberating with the immemorial, profits from advances one might judge scientific. Saariaho moved from her native Helsinki to Paris in 1982, principally to work at the computer-music studio Pierre Boulez had set up shortly before, though the French capital was also alive at this time with the new scintillating sounds of spectral music, as it was being developed by Gérard Grisey (the original version of whose Les Espaces acoustiques was performed for the first time in 1981), Tristan Murail, Hugues Dufourt, and other composers just a few years older than the new arrival from Finland. Spectral music had to do with using the harmonic spectra of real sounds—the spectra of frequencies constituting those sounds—as models for harmonies, which, each related to one source, would have wholeness as well as complexity. For example, the many instruments of an orchestra could be given diverse frequencies across a range of six octaves or more, imitating a wide spectrum and so creating sounds of imposing singularity. For Saariaho, as for the pioneer spectralists, this principle tied in with work in the studio. Computers provided means for analyzing sound spectra, and the analysis could then be adapted to compositional needs. Moreover, some of the basic techniques of electroacoustic music—notably ring modulation, which, from two frequencies x and y yields sum and difference tones (x + y, x - y, 2y + x, 2y - x, etc), often creating a clangorous result—could be imitated orchestrally by using the spectral method of assigning specified frequencies to instruments. Some approximation might be inevitable, but the use of quarter-tones, such as Saariaho occasionally introduces in her Graal théâtre, would reduce this. One might say that spectral thinking, like so much else in this work, has been there from the beginning, where the harmonics on the D string reinforce harmonics naturally present in the sound of the open A string. However, adherence to spectral models has been limited up to this point by the music’s relatively narrow range of just under three octaves, from the G of my fourth string to the F sharp so much mentioned, and by the restricted instrumentation. All this changes with the coming of the strings, followed soon, in the dissolving of the F-sharp passage, by the first woodwind instruments. Bell-like sounds are created a little later by a fusion of piano, tuned percussion, and high strings. Later still, when the brass section has finally been mobilized, after six minutes or so, strong spectral harmonies become possible. This late entry of the brass introduces another element: an unexpected alter ego for me in a solo trumpet with which I am in a dialogue of imitation and counter-imitation. But we are not yet halfway through this sixteen-minute movement, and there is a second still to come, a finale that continues the story partly by contrast. Where the first movement drifts by way of allusion, around a solo line that is almost continuous, the second is at once more dynamic and more dramatic, often cutting between its two principals, Violin and Orchestra, in vigorous dialogue. At the same time, however, this second movement is a reliving of the first. Its unaccompanied opening, which serves as the solo cadenza any concerto should have, is initiated by intensive repetitions of a four-note descending pattern, a kind of driving-rain music that has appeared in the first movement—except that here in the second the pattern is directly in keeping with the first movement’s harmonic material, descending from F sharp through the “Arabic” motif reversed (C sharp—B flat—A). Later, among other cross-references, a decelerated cascade through the orchestral registers from the high treble to the far bass is repeated in varied form. The high F sharp remains a feature, too. The two movements are like two tellings of the same story, or perhaps more like two stories in which some of the same characters and events appear. One may be indeed a story of unassuageable desire, the other a record of combat: a love song and a ballad of war. Galehaut: These may not be such different categories. Violin: Indeed, they are not in this case. Both movements end with the kind of delicately excited tremolo from which the work was born. In doing so they bring forward different notes, the first movement closing into F sharp, the second into D, but the difference is also a sameness, for these notes join with the originating A to create the triad of D major, the key in which my concerto story was told by Beethoven, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky. The whole work is thus bordered by these wisps of great predecessors. Galehaut: In my Graal théâtre it is as if modernity is a wisp, as if time were proceeding backwards, from an indistinctly defined contemporaneity toward the fullness of the epoch of legend. Violin: I might rather say that in my Graal théâtre time has no fixed direction, but rather wavers in an abundance of presence. However, perhaps we could continue our conversation in the language I know as my own. ¹ The episode is from “La Science des rêves,” the opening section of “L’Enlèvement de la reine,” last of the four tales included in the first version of Graal théâtre (Gallimard, 1977). Four more tales were published in 1981, and a further four added in the definitive edition, of 2005. ² “Lancelot is in love with Queen Guinevere, but he is at the same time the object of the love of the knight Galehaut” —Jacques Roubaud, interview on the Gallimard site. Banner image: Verdure with Deer and Shields, accompaniment to the Holy Grail tapestries woven by Morris & Co. for Stanmore Hall. This version woven by Morris & Co. 1900 for Mrs. J. T. Middlemore. Wool and silk on cotton warp. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Paul Griffiths was born in Wales in 1947. A music critic for thirty years, he has published several books on music, as well as librettos and novels. tagged with paul griffiths, kaija saariaho, M&L5	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line665
__label__wiki	0.809944	0.809944	Legendary Vocalist For The Specials, Neville Staple, Premieres Gritty New Video From His Forthcoming New Album! Los Angeles, CA - The Original Rude Boy returns! Neville Staple, charismatic vocalist/toaster for one of the most celebrated 2 Tone ska bands ever, The Specials, reclaims his place in the spotlight with a triumphant new album to be released on Cleopatra Records on May 13. Entitled Ska Crazy!, the album features phenomenal cover versions of ska/reggae classics by Prince Buster (“Time Longer Than Rope”), The Slickers (“Johnny Too Bad”), and Max Romeo (“Wet Dream”) plus brand new compositions including “Rude Boy Returns,” “Girl,” and the gritty single “Roadblock,” which will make its worldwide debut in a professionally shot music video that premieres on the syndicated music/pop culture webzine Something Else! this coming Monday, April 28. From the cinematic opening scenes of urban decay filmed in Neville’s hometown Coventry, England, the video bristles with tension as the song’s melodic hook, a killer horn-guitar combo riff, pulsates over shots of graffiti walls and CCTV cameras, like the title sequence to a lost season of The Wire. The dramatic plot of the video, a drug deal that erupts in violence, unfolds as Neville and fellow toaster Daddy Woody act as a Greek chorus warning against youthful hubris. Director Joseph Wallace comments, “I wanted to film a video that approached the subject of street crime seriously, yet still very much retaining the relaxed mood and chilled tone of the music. I wanted Neville walking through Coventry’s cold, empty streets at night singing to the camera as though almost preaching his message; weaving in and out of the narrative itself and blurring the line between performance and social issues.” The video was produced by Rawline Entertainment. Catch the video premiere here: http://somethingelsereviews.com/2014/04/29/exclusive-video-premiere-neville-staple-roadblock-from-ska-crazy-2014 Staple enthuses about the album, “I am so pleased and proud to have put this album together as it includes some old time classic favourites, which I grew up with and which I have added some ‘original rudeboy’ flavour to. My current band are brilliant and they put a lot of time into creating that authentic Jamaican sound with me, that you will hear in the tracks, as well as helping me with the creation of brand new material. You will also hear a lot of vocals from my wife Christine and my good friend and Jamaican DJ artist, Daddy Woody. I hope you all love it as much as I do and I’m dedicating the album to Jerry Dammers and my cousin Alvin who helped me on the way to a career in music.” To pre-order the CD or vinyl on Amazon: http://georiot.co/3u10 To pre-order the digital album on iTunes: http://georiot.co/21ea For the latest information on Staple, visit: https://www.facebook.com/NevilleStapleBand Labels: 2 Tone, Neville Staple, Reggae, Ska, The Specials	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line666
__label__cc	0.735561	0.264439	NEWS RELEASE · 3rd December 2011 ENBRIDGE PLANS TO TORCH KITIMAT RIVER ESTUARY IN OIL SPILL Douglas Channel Watch RESIDENTS SHOCKED AT ENBRIDGE PLANS TO TORCH KITIMAT RIVER ESTUARY IN CASE OF OIL SPILL (Kitimat – December 1, 2011) Enbridge admits their oil spill cleanup plan for the Northern Gateway Pipeline includes setting fire to oil-coated grass in the Kitimat River estuary. In volume 7A of its Northern Gateway pipeline, tank farm, and supertanker port proposal, Enbridge claims it would burn wetlands, “To reduce hydrocarbon volume when other techniques are unsuitable or would cause more damage to an area.” It also claims that setting fire to oil spills will be, “Used in areas where heavy equipment would cause environmental damage.” In volume 7B of its proposal, Enbridge admits there would be potential for a two-million-litre spill into the upper Kitimat River, which would be the largest oil spill into a Canadian river in history. Enbridge estimates it would take responders and their equipment up to four hours to reach the spill site, and that the diluted bitumen would reach the Kitimat River estuary during flood conditions in those same four hours. “Estuaries are among the world's most critical environments, helping sustain so many of the worlds organisms including millions of fish and birds and the countless others that depend on them,” said Walter Thorne of the Kitimat Valley Naturalists. “The Kitimat River is already severely endangered and the cumulative threats it faces are ominous. Burning the estuary sounds preposterous – even considering such options is unthinkable.” "Since the 1950s, the Kitimat River estuary has deteriorated, largely due to impacts by two industries," said Thorne. "If a pipeline were to burst upstream or near the terminal, it's highly probable that the estuary would be contaminated beyond rehabilitation -- a toxic wasteland." When Douglas Channel Watch asked Enbridge directly if it would burn the Kitimat River estuary after a full bore rupture, the company’s spokespeople replied, “If a controlled burn were appropriate in certain circumstances, the response team may recommend such an action.” “It is nothing short of lunacy,” said Douglas Channel Watch member Murray Minchin, “If Enbridge’s people think they can waltz through our valley and lay 70 kilometres of pipelines beside our river unopposed, they're delusional. If they think there will be no opposition to the idea of supertankers carrying 300 million litres of bitumen trying to make three 90-degree turns to reach open water, they're completely blinded by greed. Enbridge has already told us our river will be closed to fishing for at least four years after a major spill; now we find out they intend to burn one of the BC coast’s largest estuaries in the case of a spill. Enbridge may be willing to sacrifice our river, or BC's north coast, but we don't intend to let them.” Douglas Channel Watch is a group of concerned citizens dedicated to protecting the environmental integrity of Douglas Channel and its watersheds for present and future generations. It, and the Kitimat Valley Naturalists, are registered as interveners in the National Energy Board’s Joint Review Panel process, which is currently reviewing the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. Comment by C.J. Leona wilson on 6th January 2012 of the fake picture that was put out for fear of what WILL happen and a matter of when will it happen? This will be a REALLY bad way to put a Economic surge into the economy when a spill happens for the few that will be employed, as it will take every community on this coast to clean up their shores, pardon me, I am sure it will be a call for volunteers to clean it up. WWF, Sierra Club, Green Peace, are non profit organisations, who would be at the fore front with the First Nations Communities and their neighbours who live here because of the beauty and our air is not polluted, and the food from the ocean and the land. Ed Note; the picture is not fake, it is a very real picture of an oil spill set ablaze. Run your mouse on the picture, it states the following; Controlled burn after 6,000 barrels of oil spilled from ruptured Enbridge pipeline in Cohasset, Minnesota in July, 2002. Photo: US National Transportation Safety Board. New Endbridge/BC license plate logo's. Comment by Maggie Jo on 5th December 2011 I can't even stomach the future driving to Kitimat/back with my family seeing our marshlands burnt to a crisp - all for a nab at the mighty dollar. ''Makes me utterly sick to my stomach. Imagine all the marshland creatures who would be promptly wiped out in the interim. How would our beautiful rivers ever recover from being turned into oiled sesspools? We were doing fine before Endbridge was holding the carrot before our noses. We're not that desperate for cash, are we? For Endbridge to even suggest a plan of action "just in case" (remember the Michigan fiasco where they still haven't cleaned up the river?)....uh...do we REALLY need this invasive entity in our area when they have such a bad record and already have a "back up" plan in place as they know darn well an accident may VERY WELL occur?! Our license plates note: " Beautiful BC" Perhaps when Endbridge moves in (no thanks to Mr DERRICK WHO BETRAYED HIS OWN PEOPLE!!!)...perhaps our new license plate logo can change from: "Beautiful BC" "SOILED BC - The ENDBRIDGE capital of the world". (PS: Oops...I erred in writing this comment. Derrick does not deserve the title "Mr". ) This area is FILLED with fishing enthusiasts. How would you like fishing in oil?! Write your MP's....write your Gov't. Canadians have a bad reputations for being lazy in protesting style. Let's do this together and get this done! Say NO to Endbridge. Suggest to your local Officials/MLA's/Feds that if Endbridge is permitted to pull their "go ahead" that there be a petition to have our BC License Plates changed from "Beautiful BC" to "Soiled BC - the Endbridge Capital of the World." Let's SHAME them to no end. It just might work. (PS - I attended one of Endbrige's "fairs" and got a free tocque. My husband is terrified to wear it oustide of the house. Perhaps anyone else who has assumed these FREE gifts noting the Endbridge Logo on it, can get together to pull a publicized "burning" of Enbridge logo'ed items on our own..in efforts to make a statement? Anyone on board???) Truth Burns Enbridge Comment by Murray Minchin on 4th December 2011 Hello 'Fear Journalism', There was no need to exaggerate or fabricate anything in Douglas Channel Watch's press release to make Enbridge look bad. They are doing a fine job in that regard all on their own. Please find below links to Enbridge's Northern Gateway proposal where they admit to everything stated in the press release. (I suggest you read more than just the passages where the quotes came from...there are other scary things buried in the proposal.) BURNING OF WETLANDS (table A-6 on page A-26) http://www.northerngateway.ca/files/application/MASTER_Vol%207A_Final_14May10.pdf 2,000,000 LITRE SPILL & RESPONSE TIMES (page 9-22) http://www.northerngateway.ca/files/application/MASTER_Vol%207B_Final_14May10.pdf BURNING OF ESTUARY (1.4.e on page 9 of 15) https://www.neb-one.gc.ca/ll-eng/livelink.exe/fetch/2000/90464/90552/384192/620327/624476/764513/Northern_Gateway_Pipelines_Limited_Partnership_-_Northern_Gateway_Response_to_Douglas_Channel_Watch_IR_No._1_-_A2I9I1?nodeid=764577&vernum=0 CLOSING KITIMAT RIVER TO FISHING (paragraph #2 on page 9-28) where is the LOL ? Comment by Apocalypse Now on 4th December 2011 How can any one find this funny? Regarding "Fear" and the picture - No LOL Comment by Terrace Daily News on 3rd December 2011 This is an actual picture of an Enbridge Oil spill they determined to set on fire. Their concern was they would not be able to clean it up prior to it ending in a watercourse so they set it alight. If this strikes you as fearful, knowing only the truth, then be scared. We will never shirk from the truth. We added the details as a byline to the picture. Run your mouse over the picture. Comment by Fear Journalism on 3rd December 2011 Nice picture, as they say if you can not get the masses to agree with you be sure to include a fake picture to instill terror. Next time be sure to shop some mountains in the background. Make sure to adjust the tin foil i think it is cutting into your forehead.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line667
__label__cc	0.610841	0.389159	Cirsium flodmanii Species: Cirsium flodmanii (Rydb.) Arthur Common Name: Flodman’s thistle Habitat: Sandy fields. Plant Notes: The main range of this species occurs in central North America east to Minnesota and Iowa with widely scattered populations known further east to southern Quebec, northern New York, and northern Vermont (Frankton and Moore 1961, Keil 2006c). The native status of this species in New York and eastern North America is unclear (Fernald 1943, Frankton and Moore 1961) but Frankton and Moore (1961) suggest that it might be native in the east as "relicts of a more continuous distribution of early postglacial time." For now we consider it non-native. Status: Not Persisting, Not Native, Unknown Naturalized Status, G5 (Global Rank) References: Fernald (1943), Frankton and Moore (1961). Genus Cirsium Species Cirsium flodmanii (Rydb.) Arthur - Flodman’s thistle Citation Cirsium flodmanii (Rydb.) Arthur Herbarium Name Used: Cirsium flodmanii 2/25/2009 - David Werier Herbarium Name Used: Cirsium flodmanii Werier (2017) voucher!; H.D. House 15166 3/6/2018 - David Werier	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line671
__label__wiki	0.731571	0.731571	Wii Virtual Console USK update - Four new Sega games: Phantasy Star, Gley Lancer The USK is the German equivalent of the PEGI, ESRB, OFLC and all those other rating groups. They have been known to rate VC games occasionally, however, they never add the ratings to their site. Sometimes, though, they slip up and accidentally add them as Wii games - This is the case today, as they've added four new games which are all published by Sega, and are all Mega Drive games. The games are as follows: by Marcel van Duyn Thu 13th Mar 2008 "Gley" is thought to be a misspelling of "Grey" - Nevertheless, apparently it will keep its Japanese title. Gley Lancer (Import): This shooter by NCS (The makers of Cybernator, among other games) never made it out of Japan, but still has a small cult following. It's one of the Mega Drive's rarest shooters, so this is quite a welcome addition! Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom: The next game in the Phantasy Star series is a bit worse than II, but is still quite good in it's own right. Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium: Yes, they already rated the fourth game as well! As a step up from III, IV is generally considered to be the best game in the series. One to look out for! Super Fantasy Zone: This one was already rated by the ESRB a while ago, but while the US will receive it as import game, Europe will get it as a regular one. So, four more upcoming Mega Drive games for Europe! About a month ago, there were only 3 upcoming ones left - Now it's got the most upcoming games of any system (Not counting currently Japan-only games and ones no longer rated)! Which ones of these will you get? Gley Lancer (MD) Phantasy Star III (MD) Phantasy Star IV (MD) Super Fantasy Zone (MD) Thu 13th Mar 2008 That should keep Sega fans happy! That's four really decent games, and Gley Lancer may be overrated (IMO) but it's a really rare and expensive game, so it's good people will be getting the chance to own it without having to sell a kidney. Jogurt_the_Yogurt I've been waiting for PS4. I've never played a PS game, and since many people say it's the best in the series, I thought I might as well start there and dispense with the rest. Good releases, and it's looking more and more likely that the first Phantasy Star will be one of the first Master System releases. DJ_Triforce I have to say... THANK YOU, VC-REVIEWS! You guys are awesome with these updates. I must check this site 15 times a day, literally, and it's great to see frequent updates. Sharecrow Very good news.... Bensei 8 news after a release, new record! I guess we get the non-import 3 this month and the 4th next month because NoE will make a special event out of this and release all Import titles in a month. I hope NoE starts thinking that MK Wii and Wii Fit are quite a concurrence to the VC and release it now with a week delay (so hopefully another Hanabi week in April ) and proves that I was wrong before wii-c-kid Wow, regardless of how good these games are, does the VC really need another two RPGs and another two shooters? Obviously NoE never heard the saying 'variety is the spice of life' Atlantis1982 Unfortunally, Damo; still waiting for Zero Wing. Though, I guess it wouldn't hurt to try out the Phantasy Star games. wii-c-kid, I'd agree that we've seen quite a few shoot-em-ups, but rpgs have been a bit thin on the ground. I mean, we've had, what, two rpgs so far? I think there's room for more. Juampi @wii-c-kid Yes, the VC does indeed need more RPGs. President_Leever ah, finally some interesting games for the genny as well Lonewolf21 Fri 14th Mar 2008 Not bad for a sega game I guess? Manicfatty @Damo - I've played Gley Lancer in emulation, and I dug it. Plenty of fun to be had, and certainly a very good shooter. I guess I never heard the hype surrounding it or I might share your pov that it's overrated. It isn't a Thunderforce/Lightning Force game, that's for sure. I would rather have seen M.U.S.H.A. show up on the hit list myself. And I could do w/o PSIII. Bought it when it came out, and was immediately disappointed. Not a bad game, but a REALLY long time to play mediocrity. PS IV, now...YAY! And it's not $100 dollars! Old-School Platformer Phantom Gear Hoping For A Sega Mega Drive Release Feature: Xeno Crisis Is Smash TV Meets Aliens, And It's Looking Incredible It's coming to Mega Drive, NEO GEO and... Switch?! Gley Lancer MD Phantasy Star III MD Phantasy Star IV MD Super Fantasy Zone MD	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line673
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__label__wiki	0.772264	0.772264	Search Titles Dates CONTRACT TEXT Volume 2: No. 46 News -- NSF; politics News -- transitions; software industry Resources -- information services News -- job opportunities Resources -- neural-network and expert-system tools News -- projects; business ideas Resources -- employment literature NSF's Research Initiation Award (RIA) program now has a 1/15 deadline for receipt (NOT postmark). Send proposals to the Proposal Processing Unit, not the program director. The new guide will be available by at least 11/30; old forms (from NSF 88-99) will NOT be accepted. For a copy, send your surface-mail address to pubs@nsf.gov, (202) 357-7861, (703) 644-4278 Fax. [Maria Zemankova (mzemanko@nsf.gov), dbworld, 11/4.] NSF has a new announcement for CISE Postdoctoral Research Associates in Computational Science and Engineering and in Experimental Science. FTP file nsf92120 from stis.nsf.gov or request NSF 92-120 from pubs@nsf.gov. [grants, 11/9.] The election removed few incumbents, but about 1/4 of the science-related House committee members will change. George Brown (D-CA) still chairs the Science, Space, and Technology Committee. The VA/HUD/IA Subcommittee will have a new chair, and the Appropriations Committee is also likely to get one. Al Gore's "departure" is the main change in the Senate; Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) may take over as chair of the Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee. Ted Kennedy's Labor and Human Resources Committee also has influence on NSF's budget. [Janice Smith, WHAT'S NEW, 11/6.] Rep. Rick Boucher is now in charge of Internet oversight, and he intends to participate actively in its HPCC/NREN growth. Boucher is now the most savvy congressman on Internet issues. [Brock N. Meeks (brock@well.sf.ca.us), com-priv, 11/7.] Allan Bromley, the [lame duck] White House Science Advisor, claims that the National Science Board is exceeding its authority with its Commission on the Future of NSF. NSB's charter envisioned oversight of all government science policy, but the board has always restricted its attention to NSF. Bromley wants national policy left to the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House. [Nature. Janice Smith, WHAT'S NEW, 11/6.] The Clinton transition team seems willing to respond to public input on 75300.3115@compuserve.com. The CLINTON@MARIST list may also survive as an information network connected to the White House. [Rick Klau (kr33@lafayacs.bitnet), CARR-L, 11/9.] "Let me argue that the fastest way to solve a problem is to cheat, i.e., peek, i.e. ask someone who already knows the answer. ... Machines will not BE intelligent if they don't interact with the other intelligent agents ... Sooner or later any intelligent machine will figure out Godel's work, realize that an unknown amount of it's own data on the world is colored by observer bias it cannot detect, and start asking other observers for what THEY see to start comparing notes and calibrating its own perception. It will further realize that funding is uncertain, resources are scarce, other entities would like to disassemble it for parts for their own growth, and that survival depends on developing friends in high places. In short, sooner or later, an intelligent system will become social. There is very strong evidence that THAT algorithm can solve problems which are social in nature (such as survival) that no amount of computing inside the box is ever going to solve." [R. Wade Schuette (schuette@quip.eecs.umich.edu), DAI-List, 11/3.] Raj Reddy has been appointed dean of CMU's School of Computer Science. [The Institute, 11/92.] John Young has retired from HP. Lewis Platt will take over as president. EVP and COO Dean Morton is also retiring. [Lee Gomes, SJM, 10/31.] Microsoft is selling its new Access database software for $99 through 1/31, then $695. The company wants market share before Borland releases a Windows version of Paradox. [WSJ, 10/29. Tim Finin.] Computerworld (11/9) reports that development of the 572K-line Quattro Pro for Windows code took 31 months, 265M keystrokes, and 39K caffeinated beverages. The team (10+?) totaled just 5 weeks of vacation per year. Apple has released System 7.1, offering a system font folder and QuickTime 1.5. MacWarehouse has the upgrade kit for $79, but it might be available free from your dealer or user group. (When Apple put System 7.0 on ftp.apple.com, people tried to make 18,000 FTP connections on the first day. 2K were successful, pumping 1MB/second from the host. [Erik E. Fair (fair@apple.com), com-priv, 11/8.] IBM had a similar experience with its OS/2 2.01 "corrective service pack." Fortunately, other FTP sites picked up the 21MB distribution -- 10 sites within 24 hours, and worldwide distribution in another 24. [Greg Kushmerek (gkushmer@jade.tufts.edu), ibid.]) Corptech surveyed 57 firms in the public utilities software market. They found 687 jobs added in the past year, mainly in the Eastern Great Lakes and Southeast regions. Employment declined 20% in New York City. [CW, 11/9.] Harvey P. Newquist III lists some expert-system companies trying to make it in niche markets. AIQ Systems (Incline Village, NV) sells OptionExpert ($1,588 for PCs) for equity option trading, as well as StockExpert, MarketExpert, and IndexExpert. Mendelsohn Enterprises (Zephyrhills, FL) sells VantagePoint ($1,950), a neural-network system for T-bond trading (and soon other markets). Ultravision (Tempe, AZ) sells Dow-Cast ($200) to forecast stock market indexes. D&B software (Atlanta) sells the Amaps Finite Scheduling System ($100K-$300K) for materials- requirement planning. Stone & Webster (Boston) have the Recovery Boiler Advisor for pulp and paper industries. Camdat (Pittsburgh) has commercialized Caduceus/QMR for diagnosing 600 diseases from 4,300 symptoms. Pixel Perfect (Florida) has automated the Physician's Desk Reference. Apache Medical Systems markets APACHE III ($350K) for critical-care health evaluation. Malibu Artifactual Intelligence Works (Malibu, CA) sells Overcoming Depression ($199) for natural-language self-diagnosis and treatment. Molecular Design (San Leandro, CA) sells ISIS/Draw ($495), a drawing package that places chemical bonds automatically. International Digital Scientific (Valencia, CA) offers RMS Expert ($600-$8,200) for optimizing DEC database cache control. Isicad (Anaheim, CA) markets a Command 5000 Physical Network Management system to configure networks. [AI Expert, 10/92.] The Robotics and AI Database (RAID) is a DOD-sponsored archive of abstracts, available to government contractors. It includes information on more than 2,000 projects since 1980. One use is to search for funding organizations and official points of contact -- more than 3,000 are listed. RAID also has a conference listing and calendar. Contact Barbara Radziz (barb@kaman.com), (315) 734-3696. [Chris Lowe, Knowledgebase, 3/92.] Dow Jones News/Retrieval is now available via internet. (800) 522-3567 x134. Commercial users must still go through JvNCnet (market@jvnc.net), (800) 35-TIGER. [Allison Pihl (pihl@nisc.jvnc.net), com-priv, 9/4.] PC World Online is an America Online BBS from PC World magazine. First month free, then $7.95/month and $.10/minute after two hours. Access shareware, articles, reviews. (800) 827-6364 x5741 for a starter kit. The Westlaw online service carries nearly 4,000 legal databases. West Publishing Co. has just added CCH's Standard Federal Tax Reporter. [Saint Paul Pioneer Press, 8/19. agentsee.] Nynex Information Technologies is offering the first electronic Yellow Pages service via modem. Coverage includes 1.7M businesses in NY, NH, ME, MA, RI, and VT; access costs $.61/minute. [Jeff Brown, Knight-Ridder, 2/20. agentsee.] RadioMail Corp. (Menlo Park) -- formerly Anterior Technology -- now provides wireless two-way connectivity between portable computers and email services such as AT&T Mail, X.400, TCP/IP Internet, UUCP/Usenet, and Lotus cc:Mail. $149 activation plus $89 per month and $.29 per 50-word unit after the first 100 units. One-way RadioMail is available for $20/month. Contact Geoff Goodfellow (geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us or radiomail- info@radiomail.net), (415) 349-5683. [com-priv, 11/1. Tim Finin and Steve Goldstein.] RadioMail also offers the AgentSee news service (or wireless news wire.) Whistler Products (MA) is offering a motorist's Travelmate "calculator" with directions to every motel, gas station, rest stop, campsite, family and fast-food restaurant, information center, hospital, and point of interest along all major highways in the U.S. -- 30,000 businesses at 13,000 exits. $60, with $20 updates available; (800) 531-0004. An improved Tripmate is planned, at $100. [Andy Pargh, Design News, 9/23/91.] Microsoft is promoting Cinemania, a $79.95 Windows program for browsing or searching movie reviews, biographies, still photos, and classic sound bytes. (800) 426-9400. [WSJ, 8/4. Tim Finin.] Microsoft expects to introduce 600 new products in FY'93, accounting for 35%-40% of revenues. [Jim Mallory, Newsbytes. CC, 8/11.] PRODIGY is offering a new travel-booking service, Book-A-Trip. You fill in what you want and a Rosenbluth travel agent emails you a proposed itinerary in a couple of hours. Tickets can be delivered overnight. PRODIGY also offers EAASY SABRE reservations, Cruise Scan, a travel bulletin board, the Mobil Travel Guide, Zagat's restaurant reviews, annotated City Guides, weather forecasts, and advice from online travel columnists. (800) PRODIGY. [PR NewsWire, 8/26. agentsee.] Human agents -- the easy way to get an intelligent natural-language interface. Prodigy is still losing money, despite $50M in advertising since 1990 and $1B invested since 1984. (CompuServe has been profitable since 1981.) Instead of depending on ad revenue, Prodigy will soon offer extra-charge services such as games, 9,600bps graphics, and software downloads. The service will also deal with fewer merchants, especially those selling known commodities such as magazine subscriptions, bed sheets, and CDs. [Evan I. Schwartz, BW, 9/14.] Prodigy's most popular service has been email, with 65K messages and 80K bboard postings per day. It will now encourage off-line composition to reduce its long-distance charges. [Ibid.] America Online has also released an improved Mac interface with fast downloading of multiple files. (800) 827-6364. [CC, 8/11.] Many BBSs offer .QWK-format downloads that permit "interactive" mail reading while disconnected from the service. Replies are queued in .REP packets for uploading at the next opportunity. More than 50 .QWK mail readers are available, with the top five being QMail, SLMR/OLX, EZ-Reader, 1stReader, and WinQuick. [Boardwatch, 12/92.] PROCMAIL is a message filter that screens Unix mail by message-body content. Documentation in WordPerfect or PostScript format can be FTP'd from /userdata/willis/filter.* on unr.edu. ELM FILTER, for the ELM mailer, screens by header content only. Either can help you sort mail into list-specific folders so that you can read coherent threads when convenient. They also let you screen out mail loops and subscribe/unsubscribe requests. [Glee Willis (willis@unssun.scs.unr.edu), ARACHNET, 11/8.] The FirstSearch Catalog and the EPIC service from OCLC can now access Social Sciences Index (SSI) and EventLine. SSI covers 350 English-language periodicals. EventLine tracks 120K international conferences, trade shows, symposia, workshops, and seminars mentioned in Elsevier's 1,000 publications. [PACS News. PACS-L, 11/5.] FirstSearch also includes Disclosure Corporate Snapshots, a database of financial information on publicly-owned American companies. (614) 761-5054. [PACS News, 8/26.] CitaDel is a new article-citation and document-delivery service from the Research Libraries Group (RLG). Institutions pay a fixed annual fee to connect their campus-wide information servers to the CitaDel server. (Per-search pricing is also available.) Institutions may have a free 30-day trial. Document delivery by mail, fax, or internet can be arranged for full text from ABI/INFORM, Periodical Abstracts, Newspaper Abstracts, and Ei Page One. The RLIN Information Center (Mountain View, CA), bl.ric@rlg.stanford.edu, (800) 537-RLIN. [IRLIST, 9/8.] DIALOG OnDisc Ei Page One carries citations from 4,000 engineering journals and proceedings, including CS and robotics. Each two-year CD is updated six times for $995/year. Full text can be ordered from Article Express International, Inc., online through DIALOG SourceOne, or from Engineering Information Inc. Dialog Information Services (Palo Alto), (800) 3-DIALOG. [PACS News, 8/26.] The Indiana University Libraries have recently established a Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS) for scholarly texts in the humanities. Current offerings include Bibles, the Quran and Hadith, other sacred texts, Greek literature to 500 AD, Shakespeare, Goethe, and famous American writers. Also available are the OED2 on CD, multilingual word processors, text analysis programs, and instructional programs such as the Perseus CD for the Mac. A campus-wide network is planned. [PACS News. PACS-L, 11/5.] Stevan Harnad reports that the PSYCOLOQUY online psychological journal has about 2,500 readers on Bitnet and 17,500 on Usenet. It's supported by an annual APA grant, which Stevan considers more reasonable than charging each reader $.50 per year, or charging authors to publish. Another good arrangement is to permit electronic access for free, subsidized by disks and microfiche sales. [harnad@princeton.edu, VPIEJ-L, 11/9.] (The Usenet figure is for people who allow PSYCOLOQUY into their mail-reader menus; the number actually reading each issue could be much smaller.) Bill Park estimates that 50 companies were interviewing at Westech last week, versus about a dozen back in January. GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Knowledge-Based Systems Dept., needs an MS Unix/C software developer for an expert system for fault isolation in telecommunication circuits. May require frequent travel. Shri Goyal (skg0@gte.com). [Christopher J. Matheus (cjm1@gte.com), m.j.o, 10/30.] A Texas start-up selling real-time Unix software needs a VP of software operations with 15-20 years of experience. Advanced degree helpful. $100K plus bonus and stock. Sally King (king@exearch.uucp), King ComputerSearch, Inc., (214) 238-1021, (214) 699-9551 Fax. [m.j.o, 11/4.] "15 years recruiting for technology companies." Getting a resume in her file might pay off. Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Advanced Decision Systems Div. (McLean, VA), needs BS/MS/PhD expert systems and CBR developers for C/Unix financial applications and other projects. Darrell Oresky (oresky@picard.ads.com), (703) 902-3663 Fax. [Ed Kenna (ekenna@chesapeake.ads.com), m.j.o, 11/3.] UIllinois' State Water Survey, Office of Spatial and Data Analysis, seeks an assistant professional scientist with 2 years experience in ARC-INFO GIS or image processing. Would prepare research proposals and provide GIS support. Joyce Changnon, Human Resources, Position 92-10, 2204 Griffith Drive, Champaign, IL 61820. [Robert Sinclair (sinclair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu), m.j.o, 11/4.] Eli Lilly and Co. needs CASE-experienced BS/MS data analysts to guide R&D of information technology in scientific, medical, manufacturing, and business systems. Corporate Recruitment- Systems Dept. CN1192, Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, IN 46285. [Online Career Center (wwarren@msen.com), m.j.o, 11/3.] The Apex Group is looking for an analyst to plan and support an MS Windows image recognition and tracking project in Crofton, MD. Will later port to Unix. Sam Fine (resume @terminus.apexgrp.com), (301) 596-2260. [Joseph Herman (dzoey@frob.eng.umd.edu), m.j.o, 11/4.] The Federal Reserve System (Washington, DC), Div. of Research and Statistics, needs a BA/BS information systems analyst to support economists using Unix DBMS applications, SAS, S-PLUS, etc. Michael R. Grupe (m1mrg00@fed.frb.gov). [m.j.o, 11/4.] A good entry-level opening for a government-sector career. A Philadelphia financial research company needs a C++ programmer with strong mathematics skills. Scott Andrews (andrews@wharton.upenn.edu), (215) 854-0665 Fax. [m.j.o, 11/4.] Interleaf (Redwood Shores, CA) needs project managers in information technology, especially electronic publishing. Oracle RDBMS experience required, LISP/SQL a plus. Sheila Marinucci (smm@hq.ileaf.com), (408) 496-6729 Fax. [m.j.o, 11/5.] General Magic is seeking outstanding C/C++ object programmers, technical writers, etc. Must be able to achieve at least two impossible things. Sondra Card (sondra_card@genmagic.com), 2465 Latham Street, Mountain View, CA 94040. [John Giannandrea (hope@netcom.com), ba.j.o, 11/6.] George Mason University (Fairfax, VA), Center for AI, needs an MS/PhD faculty research associate in KR, ML, inference, and computer vision. Apply by 12/4. [Ken Kaufman (kaufman@gmuvax2.gmu.edu), comp.ai, 11/2.] ULeeds, Div. of AI, has two 3-year research fellowships in logical and computational aspects of spatial reasoning. Postdoc preferred. Apply to Tony Cohn (agc@scs.leeds.ac.uk), +44 532 335482, by 11/12. [C.M. Hearne (chearne@crc.ac.uk), comp.ai, 11/3.] USouth Australia Levels Campus has a tenurable CIS opening for a lecturer in DB, DSS, and information systems. Obtain a role statement from C.F. Steketee (chris.steketee@levels.unisa.edu.au), +61 8 302-3194, by 11/20. [m.j.o, 11/8.] UBristol (UK) has an open CS lectureship in parallel computing and logic programming, machine intelligence (esp. vision/speech), or other topic. Contact barbara@bristol.uk.ac.compsci, 0272- 303584, by 11/27. [I.C.G. Campbell (c.campbell@bristol.ac.uk), connectionists, 11/2.] Stanford's Dept. of CS and EE is looking for an assistant professor in heterogeneous, distributed systems software, including database integration, intelligent agents, and federation of systems in IC manufacturing, medicine, or science. Contact Hector Garcia-Molina (hector@db.stanford.edu) by 1/31/93. [dbworld, 11/9.] SMU needs a senior systems analyst to lead a NOTIS development team. Requires four years experience, at least two in library automation. CICS, SAS, JCL, VSAM; possibly PL/I, Assembler, C, COBOL, and Unix. Apply to SMU P.O. Box 232, Dallas, TX 75275, by 11/23. [Carolyn Kacena (vb7r1001@smuvm1.bitnet), PACS-L, 11/5.] Cornell's Mann Library (Ithaca, NY) needs an experienced Unix/C senior systems analyst to create innovative information systems for scholars. Advanced CS/IS degree desirable. Job PT4311, available 12/10. Contact Peter Schrempf by 11/18. [Tim Lynch (lynch@albert.mannlib.cornell.edu), PACS-L, 11/6.] NSF is looking for a deputy director, Div. of International Programs. FTP file vep931 from stis.nsf.gov. [grants, 11/9.] ULund (Sweden), Dept. of Theoretical Physics, will have a 2-year postdoc in neural networks available 9/93. Problems include optimization, prediction, robust statistics, configurational chemistry, and experimental physics. Apply by 12/15 to Carsten Peterson (carsten@thep.lu.se). [connectionists, 11/10.] Larry Hunter's favorite neural-network simulator is Xerion 3.0, free from Drew van Camp at UToronto. Source code is in C, with X-window graphics. Demos include back propagation, recurrent back propagation, Boltzmann machine, mean field theory, free energy manipulation, Kohonnen net, and hard/soft competitive learning. FTP'd from ai.toronto.edu. [hunter@nlm.nih.gov, 11/4.] SOM_PAK, the Self-Organizing Map Program Package, is available in Version 1.2 from the Helsinki University of Technology. For theory, see Teuvo Kohonen, "The Self-Organizing Map," Proc. IEEE, 78(9):1464-1480, 1990. The package is written in ANSI C for Unix (som_pak-1.2.tar.Z) or MS DOS (som_p1r2.exe). Use binary FTP from /pub/som_pak on cochlea.hut.fi (130.233.168.48). Questions to som@cochlea.hut.fi. [LVQ_PAK (lvq@cochlea.hut.fi), connectionists, 11/3.] HUT also has a Learning Vector Quantization program, just upgraded to Version 2.1. FTP files from /pub/lvq_pak. [Neuron Digest, 11/6.] HNC's Database Mining Workstation generates and explains predictive decision models. $19,950. (619) 546-8877. [AI Magazine, Fall 92.] The Turing Institute has evaluated seven KBS tools: ADS, ART-IM, KBMS, KES, Level5 Object, Nexpert Object and TIRS. The 3-volume report is $950 or UK#550. +44 (0)41 552 6400, or (508) 256-9593. [MIN, 7/92.] The tour group led by Ed Feigenbaum has reported that nearly all expert system tools in Japan come from the major computer companies. Hitachi has sold 4K of its ES/Kernel tool. Japan's steel industry has been the most active customer. Fuzzy logic is also a big success in Japan, partly due to the International Fuzzy Engineering Research (LIFE) effort. [David Blanchard, ISR. MIN, 7/92.] Neuron Data's Nexpert Object 3.0 has a graphical interface so that users needn't write C code. (415) 321-4488. [David Blanchard, ISR. MIN, 7/92.] "C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning" by J. Ross Quinlan is available. C4.5 derives decision trees or rules from labeled classes, and can handle tens of thousands of cases with hundreds of nominal and numeric properties. The book and C/Unix source code are $69.95 (+ $3.50) in the U.S., $76 (+ $6.50) elsewhere. Morgan Kaufmann (morgan@unix.sri.com), (800) 745-7323, (415) 578-9911, (415) 578-0672 Fax. [comp.ai, 10/9.] BABYLON is a public-domain expert system shell in Common Lisp for many platforms. The German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD) developed BABYLON, and Apple ships it with the Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp 2.0 CD-ROM. Full source code and a stand-alone Mac version -- no MACL needed -- comes with T. Christaller's "The AI Workbench BABYLON" (Academic Press, London, 1992, 474 pp., ISBN 0-12-174235-0). You can also FTP the code (bin-hexed StuffIt format) from gmd/ai-research/Software on gmdzi.gmd.de (129.26.8.90). [Andy Kohl (kohl@gmdzi.gmd.de), comp.ai, 10/9.] IBM's CLP(R) is now available in Version 1.2, free to academic and research users. CLP(R) is a constraint logic programming language with real-arithmetic constraints. It also subsumes PROLOG. Applications have included molecular biology, finance, and physical modeling. The new version adds arc sin/cos constraints, several system predicates, and support for MS DOS and OS/2 2.0. Ask Joxan Jaffar (joxan@watson.ibm.com) or Roland Yap (roland@cs.monash.edu.au) for the documentation and C-language source files. [comp.ai.shells, 10/23.] MicroGA is a C++ object framework for genetic algorithms. on the Mac or MS Windows. Includes sample source for function optimization, resource allocation, and TSP. $249 + $3 S&H. Emergent Behavior (Palo Alto), (415) 494-6763. Version 5.1 of CLIPS is now available from NASA. The shell runs on PCs, Mac, Vax, and Unix. The new version supports rules, objects, and procedural code. The official COSMIC distribution is $350 plus $140 for documentation; (404) 542-3265. [AI Magazine, Fall 92.] Purchasers are permitted to distribute additional copies of the software for free. CLIPS maintainer Gary Riley (riley@krakatoa.uucp) is seeking suggestions on modularity features to group rules and control information transfer. Each CLIPS 6.0 module will have its own rete network and agenda. [comp.ai.shells, 10/23.] Lawrence Davenport III announced an "educational stock market game": $49.95 to enter, with prizes of $1K-$25K for the best portfolios after three months. Participants would get a good introduction to investment and risk, including issues of Wall Street Investment Review, Dow Theory Forecasts, and The Cabot Market Letter (recommended in Hubert's Guide To The Investment Newsletters). (800) 964-6463. [Neuron Digest, 11/7.] It sounds like an [illegal?] lottery or game of chance. Larry's account at Columbia has been shut down. Delete the prizes and this would be an interesting educational project. The American Computer Exchange (Atlanta, GA) is a used- computer brokerage run by John Hastings. Sellers are charged a 10% commission. John says "You have to be ahead of your time. You can't [start at] the right place at the right time because this industry moves too fast." He expects increased future sales overseas, especially for obsolete PCs. You can get 10 XTs or 5 ATs for the price of a used 386. (800) 786-0717. [David Walters, CC, 8/11.] Shareware and low-end software packaged for overseas use might do quite well -- if piracy weren't the norm. U.S. software sales are picking up in the Commonwealth of Independent States -- up by a factor of 8 from 11/91 to 2/92. Autodesk sells five products coded in the CIS. Esther Dyson says that "If you just halfway know what you're doing, you can make a big difference -- and get rewarded for it." Corporations look for large investments, but the action is in small businesses. Over half a million new business were registered in Poland last year. Several general venture funds are looking into the possibilities, eager to diversify from the U.S. high-tech and biotech industries. [Clay A. Bullwinkle, SJM, 11/9.] Steven Stone suggested on PACS-L that student bibliographies be archived for use by other students. Paul Kantor of Rutgers' School of Communication, Information and Library Studies has described a related project: users searching the online catalog can annotate the records and see related documents suggested by their colleagues. [Hannah Kaufman (hannahk@pucc.princeton.edu), PACS-L, 10/15.] Cyberion City is a multiuser simulation environment (MUSE) developed by Barry Kort and Stan Lim. Each of the 1,500 registered citizens can add 100 rooms or objects (with commands like "@create room"), or even more if they ask permission to build something of public value. A science center, museum, university, shopping mall, entertainment section, rain forest, Yellowstone Park, and planetarium have all been built by the citizens. People seem drawn to such informal public spaces, perhaps because the U.S. has lost its town squares, soda fountains, and neighborhood taverns. [Joshua Quittner (quit@newsday.com), Long Island Newsday, 11/3. Barry Kort (barry@michael.ai.mit.edu), KIDSNET. Elliott Parker, CARR-L, 11/7.] Josh plans to "cover the Internet like a foreign correspondent." MCI was surprised by the popularity of its Friends and Family service, which gives you a 20% discount on calls to 12 other MCI users. It's been their most successful product roll-out ever. [Gary H. Anthes, CW, 1/27.] (Look for ways to build "community.") America Online started with just $2M and became profitable in two years. Earnings this last year were $3.4M on $36M revenues, up 40%. The company charges $7.95/month plus $.10/minute after two hours. [Mark Lewyn, BW, 9/14.] AOL has combined its Mac and PC-Link services, and is also supporting SeniorNet. It tries to convey a sense of community and involvement, whereas Prodigy is a shopping mall and CompuServe is a library. AOL's recent alliance with the Chicago Tribune is aimed at people who don't want to just read a newspaper, they want to "interact with it, find out more information, discuss things with reporters, debate topics with fellow readers." Over 100 software publishers sponsor online support forums and update libraries -- and are finding that user groups are an inexpensive way to support customers and build loyalty. [Steve Case. Mary Eisenhart, MicroTimes, 8/31.] Last week I mentioned Dorin Schumacher's "Get Funded! A Practical Guide for Scholars Seeking Research Support from Business." Unfortunately, Spectrum (6/92, p. 56) gave the wrong phone number. The book is $18.95 ($38.95 hardbound) from Sage Publications, 2455 Teller Road, Newbury Park, CA 91320-2218; (805) 499-9774. [Stella Miles, 11/10.] Dorin recommends seeking business funding to access advanced equipment, keep in touch with the real world, and help your teaching. She suggests a personal approach when dealing with industry. You might reach the author as dorin@iies.ecn.purdue.edu, but she hasn't used that login in a month. (317) 494-9369 will get you the Bioengineering Center at Purdue (Ag. Dept., Potter Engineering Center), which can send a flyer. Instructions for writing a curriculum vitae are available in several books. Mary-Claire van Leunen's "A Handbook for Scholars" (Oxford, 1992, $13 pb) has an appendix on curricula vitarum. Ms. van Leunen was editor for the Yale Dept. of CS, as well as the Harvard Divinity Review. [Jon Gilligan, sci.research.careers, 8/18.] Another resource is "The Academic Job Search Handbook" (UPenn Press, 1992, $12.95 pb), by Heiberger and Vick. It includes timetables and strategies. [Mark E. Smith (mes10@po.cwru.edu), ibid.] Unless a CV is specified, it's usually better to send a customized resume of two pages at most. Better yet, skip the resume and present your case in a letter, e-message, or on the phone. (A 1988 Equifax survey found that 29% of 200 resumes had phony employment dates or other fraudulent data. 3% had falsified degrees. Careful employers check every detail. [Dallas Morning News. SJM, 9/27.]) Your technical skills may get you an interview, but it is your soft skills that will get you hired. People hire you to fit in with their company. "They hire you because they like _you_, not because they like your resume." Show desire, enthusiasm, motivation, determination, leadership, planning, decision-making, business acumen, teamwork, tolerance for ambiguity, and especially interpersonal skills. [Jack Wilson, CIO, 3/92. ACMemberNet, 7/92.]	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line678
__label__wiki	0.766697	0.766697	Peter Joseph Singhatey Peter Just Loves Flying... Hague says suppression of internet is not acceptable INTERNATIONAL “RULES of the road” must be agreed for the internet, but not at the price of freedom of expression, British foreign secretary William Hague has told a major conference in London. “The internet is not separate from society, it is part of society and mirrors society,” he said. “The best and worst of human behaviour find expression online and the technology lends itself to misuse as well as to great benefit.” Brief Profile: Started my career with the Gambia Armed Forces (GAF) where I served seventeen years in various capacities. I am a graduate from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the UK, School of Infantry and Tactics in both the USA and Pakistan and attended Staff College in Nigeria. I have a diploma in African Strategic Studies from Nasser Higher Military Academy in Cairo, Egypt and hold a MA in International Security and Conflict Studies from Dublin City University. I have also recently completed a Professional Diploma in Financial Advice to provide further insight into the world of banking and finance with a view to exploring how sustainable microfinance initiatives can help break the poverty cycle, enhance microeconomic stability and be an integral part of a broader conflict prevention strategy in the Developing World especially Africa. While serving with the GAF I had the opportunity to work with the AU Mission in Sudan, the UN Assistance Mission in Sierra Leone and the ECOWAS Peacekeeping Force in Guinea Bissau. The experience enlightened me to the intricacies of the wars which has proved invaluable to my understanding of causes of conflict and exposed me to ways that help prevent, resolve and transform conflict effectively. Frequent trips to Africa keeps me in touch with the painful reality on the Continent which motivates me to remain focused on dedicated research for innovative ideas. I remain deeply concerned for the displaced and vulnerable and continue to bring my experience, working in conflict affected areas of Africa, to bear and contribute where appropriate to create lasting and positive change in the lives of the vulnerable. Just Love Flying... Just Love Flying "Feel the Freedom" Madox Airsports RMA Sandhurst 1992 Mess Night Normandy Company Rugby Team RMA Sandhurst Graduation Parade Gambia Armed Forces General Jamerson USAF Deployment to Guinea Bissau 1998 ECOWAS Peacekeeping Guinea Bissau 1998 Sierra Leone 2001 Makeni - UN Peacekeeping (UNAMSIL) Darfur - 2004 El Fasher Airport - AU Peacekeeping (AMIS) Darfur 2004 Zalingei Darfur - AU Peacekeeping (AMIS) Tweets by @petersinghatey Blog Archive November (1) October (2) August (1) June (1) May (1) January (2) November (1) October (2) September (2) August (5) July (5) June (1) May (1) April (1) March (3) February (2) January (6) December (2) November (8) October (1) September (3) August (2) June (2) May (4) April (3) March (13) February (5) January (10) December (10) November (21) October (20) September (4) August (4) July (3) June (2) May (4) April (6) March (7) February (4) January (12) December (6) November (12) October (12) September (8) August (7) July (9) June (15) May (19) April (17) March (4) February (11) January (14) November (7) October (9) September (6) August (7) July (7) June (11) May (9) April (14) March (15) February (11) January (16) December (8) November (12) October (11) September (18) August (13) July (24) June (19) May (26) April (28) March (29) February (27) January (37) December (13) November (32) October (46) September (69) August (72) July (118) June (16) Think Again: War - By Joshua S. Goldstein \| Foreign Policy Think Again: War - By Joshua S. Goldstein Foreign Policy The early 21st century seems awash in wars: the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq... 1,000 primary teachers out of work due to cutbacks, says INTO 1,000 primary teachers out of work due to cutbacks, says INTO More than 1,000 qualified primary teachers are without work due to education ... Charity's board 'did not vote to oust O'Shea in bully row' via @independent_ie http://www.independent.ie/national-news/charitys-board-did-not-vote-to-oust-oshea-in-bully-row-3166696.html CHARITY boss John O'Shea ... Ireland’s poorest get 20% poorer as richest get 4% richer \| Irish Examiner Ireland’s poorest get 20% poorer as richest get 4% richer \| Irish Examiner Ireland’s poorest get 20% poorer as richest get 4% richer By Ev... Peter Singhatey Adventurous Flying in Africa - "Simply Fabulous" \| Promote your Page too petersinghatey. Travel theme. Powered by Blogger.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line683
__label__wiki	0.747905	0.747905	Monstrous Bodies Reviews Press Reviews for Monstrous Bodies Monstrous Bodies Review The Stage, Thom Dibdin ‘Exilherating, fierce theatre performed with passion by a talented cast’ Sandy Thomson dives deep into Dundee's hidden history to create a powerful and triumphantly entertaining piece of theatre that speaks with a voice that is both local and universal. The historic sections of Monstrous Bodies depict a young Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin's time in Dundee. She was sent there at the age of 14 to stay with the Baxter family, who had similar rad- ical and feminist political affiliations as her parents. In the modern strand of the story 14 year-old Roxanne Walker is due to give a talk on Mary in a week’s time, when she keels over drunk at a party and is photographed with her top down. Thomson brings these two strands together as the Baxters' influence on Mary foreshadows her writing of Frankenstein. Roxanne tells this story as she gathers the inner strength to confront those who put her photo on Facebook. Thomson's production is suitably dynamic; Colin Low- son's sound draws on modern and classic pop music while Emma Jayne Park brings elements of music video to her choreography. The cast includes members of Thomson’s own Poorboy Ensemble as well as Dundee Rep's 15- strong young company. The performances – led by Rebekah Lumsden's distressed Roxanne and Eilidh McCormick's precocious Mary, with Elaine Stirrat playing right-on librarian Liberty Smith – is near perfect. The young company combine naturalism with a necessary sense of heightened reality. It brings an explosive buzz to the modern elements, while the two ensembles ensure that the intertwining plots remain distinct but intimately relevant to each other. The Scotsman, Joyce McMillan It’s almost 35 years since Liz Lochhead launched her remarkable playwriting career with Blood And Ice, a play inspired by the extraordinary life and imagination of the woman who wrote Frankenstein, Mary Shelley. And now, out of the darkness of Dundee Rep’s beautiful, sweeping stage, comes another magnificent Shelley-inspired drama about the unending struggle for women’s rights and self-determination – a struggle which 200 years ago shaped the lives of Mary Shelley and her remarkable mother, the campaigner and writer Mary Wollstonecraft, and which continues unabated today, when despite so many gains over the last century, young women face brand new hazards of online abuse and hatred. So Sandy Thomson’s powerful and fascinating new play – co-produced by Dundee Rep and Thomson’s own company, Poorboy Ensemble – intertwines two stories. One is based on the period in 1812 when young Mary Shelley, then aged 14 and still known as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, came to Dundee to live for a while with the wealthy but radical Baxter family. The other is the fictional but well-researched story of a 21st century Dundee teenager, Roxanne. She is preparing to give a school talk on Mary Shelley when her life is derailed by a popular leader of “lad” culture in her class, who takes a semi-naked photograph of her unconscious after a drunk- en party, and posts it on social media. The scene is therefore set for a rich, passionate and sometimes slightly mind-blowing theatre experience, as the young Mary joins her kind and motherly Dundee hostess Marianne Baxter, eloquently played by the great Irene Macdougall, in fighting the pompous and sometimes deadly patriarchal arrogance that surrounds female lives in the early 19th century, while 21st century Roxanne searches desperately for the inner strength to fight the sense of humiliation and worth- lessness created by internet bullying. Thomson, who also directs, uses all the resources of theatre to dazzling effect, washing the stage with fiercely contrasting lighting states and rowdy feminist rock music, and deploying a cast of 11, plus 15 young performers from the Rep’s Young Company, in explosive dance se- quences by Emma Jane Park that range from the slightly intrusive to the absolutely brilliant. And if the alternations between one story and another sometimes seem exhausting – and the Mary Shelley story is too melodramatic towards the end – Monstrous Bodies remains a breathtakingly ambitious piece of contemporary theatre, sustained by two magnificent central performances from Eilidh McCormick as Mary and Rebekah Lumsden as Roxanne, ruthlessly honest about the physical reality of women’s lives, and memorably courageous in facing the demons and dragons of misogyny that have been laid low by so many brave feminist fighters through the ages, but that still re- turn in every generation, to be confronted again. The Herald, Neil Cooper A GIRL with shocking pink hair introduces herself as Liberty. She stands centre stage and in- vites everyone to keep their mobile phones on so they can take pictures of what follows. This isn’t what one might expect from a play advertised as being about Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin’s time in Dundee in 1812 before, as Mary Shelley, she introduced the world to science-fiction with her novel, Frankenstein. In the hands of the Poorboy company’s Sandy Thomson, however, one should expect nothing less. Subtitled Chasing Mary Shelley Down Peep O’Day Lane, Thomson’s production of her own play charts Mary’s travails as a fourteen year old put into the care of the wealthy and quasi-progres- sive Baxter family. She juxtaposes this with a modern-day scenario involving Roxanne, a girl the same age as Mary. When a compromising photograph is taken of Roxanne without her knowl- edge, the talk she is preparing on Shelley sees her attempt to conquer her fears, just as Mary did. The result is a dramatic sprawl of quick-cutting scenes that flit between nineteenth century melodrama and MTV-styled dance routines, with independent women at the heart of both. Played out over a split-level set, the combined might of the Dundee Rep and Poorboy acting ensembles are bolstered even more by a fifteen-strong young company of teenage performers. As Mary and Roxanne, Eilidh McCormick and Rebekah Lumsden are towers of strength across the ages, both to their peers and each other. In a high-octane study of how a moral high ground can be used as an excuse for misogyny, it shows how necessary it is now more than ever for young women to write their own story. Confabulous Articles	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line694
__label__cc	0.636531	0.363469	Fuel Oil With 0.5% Sulfur Content Author: Mauro Capocelli – Chemical Engineer – Researcher –University UCBM – Rome (Italy) 1.Theme Description The presence of sulfur compounds in fuel oils causes concern both during refining processes (due to catalyst deactivation and corrosion) and during the fuel end-use, since the fuel combustion generates the emission of oxides. The main environmental concern from SOx emission is related to respiratory problems.Sulphur oxides (with water) also produces sulphuric acid, the main cause of acid rain and corrosion. Furthermore, when the emissions are in the form of sulphate particles, sulfur also contributes to the formation of particulate matter. The original content in crude oils (organic in the form of thiols, sulphides, and thiophenic compounds and inorganic such as S, H2S, FeS2) varies from 10-2 to 8 %w (see Figure 1). Globally, the S amount in the distillation fractions increases with an increase in boiling range and the class of aromatics is the most resistant to desulfurization. Figure 1 – Main classes ofS-containing compounds incrude oil Among the 100 mb/day of oil supply, about the 4% is represented by the oil-based marine fuel. Shipping is by far the main pathway of international commerce and its emissions have a worldwide dispersion (also affecting climate)[1]. For decades, the ISO has been accepted the limit of 3.5% sulphur for the heavy bunker fuel. To lower the pollution near ports, many governing bodies have established Emission Control Areas (ECA) in which the maximum sulphur(in burned fuels) is limited. The allowable level in these region has been reduced from 1.5 % (2010) to the present 0.1%. On the other hand, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has planned to lower the sulphur content to 0.5%w from the 2020. Many Chinese ports, including Shenzen and Shangai, are going to implement the IMO compliance of 0.5% sulphur limit. These regulations require a very deep desulfurization to meet the ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD)specifications(15 ppm).According to McKinsey & Co., the shipping industry will react by switching to a combination of marine gasoil and low-sulfur residuals […] generating, very attractive investment on sulfur removal technologies.>>[2] Figure 2 – Sulphur content in bunker fuels according toIMO regulations. 2.Technological Options & Challenges Foster Wheeler examined the impact of the new regulations on a typical refinery concluding that the new targets will be achieved by processing the crudes with the lowest S-content or by increasing the blending with distillates. From the market point of view, particularly if considering the SECA regulations, the distillate production will be under pressure and the new capital costs (upgrading/retrofit) will increase the price of bunker fuels up to the diesel level.[3]On the other hand, novel Desulfurization Projects (50-100 in the next 12 years) will be needed to produce ~200·106 tonnes/year of residue meeting the future specifications. In synthesis, the options available to meet the future environmental standards are: A switch in crude selection rather than investing in expensive desulfurization. This means an increased demand for sweet crudes (Africa, Southeast Asia) at the expense of sour grades (from Middle East);about that, Stockle and Knight assert that few crudes are able to produce a fuel oil meeting this specification without some sort of residue upgrading/desulphurisation3. Blending with low-sulphur distillates. This could cause the cited economic consequences as well as possible technical issues for ship engineers in terms of engine failure (stability and compatibility). Moving towards alternative fuels, mainly LNG or Methanol LNG, now accounting for an additional 0.3 mb/d of bunker demand, represents an interesting opportunity for ferry routes and river transportation. Installation of advanced flue gas scrubbing technology; the main issue is the liquid discharge into the environment Development of novel “breakthrough“ desulphurization processes and/or drastic change in refinery operation. In the following, the main technological options of heavy fuel desulfurization are described. 2.1 Hydrodesulfurization (HDS) It is the most common technique, already implemented in any refinery system, and needs hydrogen as a reactant and a catalyst (typically Co-Mo/Al2O3 and Ni-Mo/Al2O3) to convert sulfur compounds into H2S. Typical operating conditions are high temperature (>300) and pressures (>100 bar). Heterocyclic compounds are hardly removed (due to steric-hindered adsorption on catalyst surface) while thiols and sulfides are completely converted into H2S. This latter is subsequently separated from fuel oil sand oxidized into elemental sulfur (Claus Process). HDS can be applied to different streams of the overall refining process: i) Pre-upgrading (e.g. VGO hydro treating); ii) Residue upgrading gas well as iii) Whole Crude hydrotreatment generating directly low-sulphur crudes. These solutions are discussed in the report by Foster & Wheeler that also points out the increase in carbon emission related to the new refinery configurations able to meet these standards[4]. The overall effectiveness of HDS is limited by: i) metal content of heavy oils; ii) coking and fouling potential; iii) steric hindrance, during both the catalytic reaction and the adsorption.[5]In conclusion, to push forward the HDS in order to meet standards of ULSD means: high pressure and temperature (requiring high capital and operating costs), limited catalyst life and high energy and carbon footprint. Figure 3- Possible locations of hydrotreating units in the oil refinery 2.2 Adsorptive desulfurization (ADS) This process, consisting in confining S-compounds onto a solid matrix, depends on the selectivity of the sorbent as well as on the regeneration method. Several sorbent materials have been evaluated for both model oils and distillates: activated carbon, silica-aluminas, zeolites, Gallium+Y-zeolites, Cu-zirconia and metal organic framework[6]. Acceptable desulfurization levels can be achieved under mild conditions from the experimental point of view. On the other hand, the process reliability is still not sufficient for industrial applications. Moreover, heavy oils present large molecules that strongly reduce the adsorption efficiency due to steric hindrance. 2.3 Bio-desulfurization(BDS) This process does not require hydrogen and external energy since it implements microorganisms to remove S atoms from organic compounds. It is still not practicable on industrial scale. Some experimental evidences have been presented in the literature for model matrix6. 2.4 Extractive desulfurization (EDS) Extractive desulfurization does not require hydrogen and can be operated at mild conditions. On the other hand, the system thermodynamics influences the process efficiency since i) the solubility of the compounds in the solvent (acetone, ethanol, polyethylene glycols, etc.) limits the extraction yield, ii) the solvent and the oil should be immiscible to minimize the solvent losses; iii) the viscosity of fluids worsen the mixing, iv) the vapor pressure of the solvent limits the operating conditions; v) the solvent may contain other compounds extracted from the oil. Because of these drawbacks the energy footprint of the solvent regeneration could be very high. 2.5 Oxidative desulfurization (ODS) ODS is a viable alternative to HDS since oxidized sulfur compounds can be “easily” removed. The subsequent separation can be achieved by physical methods (e.g. extraction by non-miscible polar solvent followed by gravity, adsorption or centrifugal separation); oxidized sulfur can be also removed by thermal decomposition. Follow by EDS, the oxidation does not mitigate the solvent loss and energy cost (abovementioned solvent regenerating issues) but increases the process selectivity. The process require oxidant (H2O2 among the best, other represented in the figure below) a catalyst (e.g. acids) and a phase-transfer agent (PTA) when the mass transfer across the aqueous and oil phases represents the rate-limiting step (to enhance the kinetics of the liquid-liquid heterogeneous reaction system). Figure 4 – Active oxygen for different oxidants In factPTAs is able to form a complex with the oxidant in the aqueous phase transporting it across the interface. In synthesis, ODS can be obtained i) in an acidic medium, ii) by an oxidizing agent, iii) by autoxidation, iv) by catalytic oxidation, v) by photochemical oxidation, vii) by ultrasound oxidation. Several companies and research groups introduced the intensification effect by means of Ultrasounds (US). SulphCo’s patented technology uses Ultrasound to induce cavitation in a water/oil stream[7]. During the Ultrasonic Cavitation (under the influence of the pressure rarefaction), cavities arise from dissolved gases by partial vaporization. Depending on the size of these cavities and the pressure variations, they undergo into a radial motion: the negative pressure induces expansion of the cavity until the attainment of a maximum radius. These vapor bubbles undergo a subsequent compression phase causing the rapid compression. The collapse dynamic is faster than mass and heat transfer (the temperature increasing is comparable with an adiabatic compression with heating rates > 109 K s-1) and leads to high pressures ( >100 bar) and temperatures ( > 5000 K ).; where Ta is the ambient temperature, Pi is the pressure inside the bubble at its maximum size and Pa is the ambient pressure at the moment of transient collapse. Thanks to these local extreme conditions, the collapsing cavity becomes an “hot spot”, concentrating the energy in very small zones. At the final moment of bubble collapse, wall motion is far more rapid than diffusion dynamics of water vapor: the entrapped molecules dissociates forming radical species. On this basis, chemical reactions and physical consequences (intense shear, mixing and high localized pressure and temperature)induce and accelerate several chemical processes[8]. Figure 5- Sinusoidal acoustic pressure and related single bubble radius-time curve (during acoustic cavitation). SulphCO® Technology demonstrated the efficient conversion of sulfides and other S species to sulfones (easily removed by downstream separation). Several research groups have tested the US to globally overcome the mass transfer limits and increase the reaction kinetics. Akbari et al. investigated the intensification effect that US produces on the efficiency and the catalyst deactivation during the oxidative desulfurization of model diesel over MoO3/Al2O3.[9]Bolla et al. studied the phenomenology of US-assisted ODS of Liquid Fuels by simulating the bubble dynamics, the involved chemical reactions as well as by observing the combination of oxidizing agents (e.g. Fenton reagent) and ultrasounds[10].Bhasarkar et al. investigated the contemporary use of ultrasound and PTA for ODS. Good conversion has been observed in the simultaneous desulfurization/denitrification of liquid fuels in sonochemical flow-reactors[11]. Different improvements achieved by the US implementation in industrial desulfurization processes are described by Wu and Ondruschka 2010[12]. Ionic liquids (ILs)have been implemented for their extraction characteristics in combined EDS/ODS schemes (see Figure 6). ILs consist of organic cations and inorganic anions; they are high boiling solvents and can be tuned to meet the requirement of specific applications. Low viscosity ILs showed remarkable results for their regeneration (by a simple water dilution and vacuum distillation process).[13] The process efficiency increases with oxidized compounds (sulfoxides and sulfones) but ILS are also able to obtain good removal of heterocyclic S-compounds. The possible reaction patterns, regeneration features as well as future challenges and perspectives have been described by Bhutto et al.[14] Figure 6 – Simplified process scheme of ILS-assisted desulfurization [1]Di Natale, Carotenuto Particulate matter in marine diesel engines exhausts: Emission sand control strategies. Transportation Research Part D 40 (2015) 166–191 [2]https://www.mckinseyenergyinsights.com/insights/marpol-implications-on-refining-and-shipping-markets/https://www.platts.com/ShippingNews/26935712 [3]M. Stockle and T. Knight,(2009) Foster Wheeler Energy Limited. Impact of low-sulphur bunkers on refineries. http://www.digitalrefining.com/article/1000090,Impact_of_low_sulphur_bunkers on_refineries.html#.WtTCx4hubIU [4]M. Stockle and T. Knight,(2009) Foster Wheeler Energy Limited. Impact of low-sulphur bunkers on refineries. http://www.digitalrefining.com/article/1000090,Impact_of_low_sulphur_bunkers on_refineries.html#.WtTCx4hubIU. [5] Bhutto et al., 2016. Oxidative desulfurization of fuel oils using ionic liquids: A review. Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers Volume 62, May 2016, Pages 84-97. [6]R.Javadli and A. de Klerk Desulfurization of heavy oil Appl Petrochem Res (2012) 1:3–19. DOI 10.1007/s13203-012-0006-6. Bhutto et al., 2016. Oxidative desulfurization of fuel oils using ionic liquids: A review. Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers Volume 62, May 2016, Pages 84-97. [7]SulphCO ®“Oxidative Desulfurization”. IAEE Houston Chapter June 11, 2009 https://www.usaee.org/chapters/documents/Houston_090611.pdfhttps://www.usaee.org/chapters/documents/Houston_090611.pdf. [8] Capocelli et al., Sonochemical degradation of estradiols: Incidence of ultrasonic frequency. Chemical Engineering Journal 210, pp. 9-17 [9] A. Akbari et al. / Investigation of process variables and intensification effects of ultrasound applied in oxidative desulfurization of model diesel over MoO3/Al2O3 catalys. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 21 (2014) 692–705. [10] Manohar Kumar Bolla, Mechanistic Features of Ultrasound-Assisted Oxidative Desulfurization of Liquid Fuels. dx.doi.org/10.1021/ie300807a\| Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2012, 51, 9705−9712. [11]Gaudino et al., 2014 Efficient H2O2/CH3COOH oxidative desulfurization/denitrification of liquid fuels in sonochemical flow-reactors Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 21 (2014) 283–288. [12]Z. Wu, B. Ondruschka.Ultrasound-assisted oxidative desulfurization of liquid fuels and its industrial application Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 17 (2010) 1027–1032. [13]R.Abro, A review of extractive desulfurization of fuel oilsusing ionic liquids, RSC Adv.,2014,4, 35302. [14] Bhutto et al., 2016. Oxidative desulfurization of fuel oils using ionic liquids: A review. Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers Volume 62, May 2016, Pages 84-97. Energy Storage Using Thermal Processes and Nanotubes Intelligent Clothing to Improve Safety at Work and Support Production Solar: paper like cells Smart Fluid	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line697
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__label__wiki	0.819553	0.819553	Authentic original newspapers for sale Birthday & Gift Issues All The 1600's and 1700's - American - British - Revolutionary War The Civil War - Confederate - Yankee The Old West Harper's Weekly - 1857-1860 - 1861-1865 - 1866-1869 - 1870-1879 - 1880-1889 - 1890-1899 - 1900-1916 Moments in American History - Post-Civil War - Pre-Civil War The 20th Century - World War II Displayable Issues Wholesale Lots War of 1812 Documents & Broadsides The 21st Century Home > Diagram of a new flag for the Confederacy... Show image list » Diagram of a new flag for the Confederacy... RICHMOND EXAMINER, Virginia, Feb. 13, 1862 * Diagram of a new flag for the Confederate states * From the capital of the Confederacy Not only is this a nice Confederate newspaper, but it is from the capital of the Confederacy. The most interesting content in this issue would be the page two article: "The New Flag of The Confederacy" which includes an illustration of it (unusual to find such in Confederate newspapers) with related text including: "We learn that the committee..charged with determining & reporting a design for the flag of the Southern Confederacy, have adopted one which we reproduce in the sketch below:...the flag is to be a blue 'Union' on a red field, the stars being in white..." with more (see image). Half of the front page is taken up with ads while half is taken up with Civil War and news reports, with items headed: "Gayeties Of The 'White House' "Mrs. Lincoln's 'Free Summers' " which has some very interesting reading (see for portions). Also: "Important From Mexico" "American Affairs in Europe--Recognition of the Southern Confederacy" and "The Northern Congress--The Treasury Note bill...". Also on page 2 is: "The Enemy In North Carolina--The Late Fight" "The Roanoke Disaster--Additional Particulars of the Battle Our Forces at Roanoke Island..." "Metal-Protected War Ships" which is an interesting article which comes in advance of the Monitor vs. Merrimac encounter less than a month later. Also: "Whiskey Vs. Bread" "Provision For Recruiting Companies in the Confederate Service" and other items. Page 3 has both ads & news reports with "Telegraphic News" having various Civil War content. Complete as a four page newspaper, never bound nor trimmed, and save for a upper corner of the back leaf with a printing error (was folded when printed), and some dirtiness down the vertical fold of the front page, this issue is in uncommonly nice, clean condition. Category: Confederate From the Confederacy with a report on... Battle of Fort Donelson as reported b... Why can't the North live on their own... View more related titles » About Us Related Links Become a Member FAQs Birthday Issues Gift Ideas Our Catalog Best of the Best Informative Videos Featured Collections List of Common Reprints Recent Additions Follow @rarenewspapers Terms & Conditions\| Return Policy\| Privacy Policy\| DMCA\| Contact Us Copyright © 2019 Timothy Hughes Rare & Early Newspapers	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line702
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__label__wiki	0.944844	0.944844	Activist school: Ivy kids learn to fight The Man By Lisa Provence \| lisa@readthehook.com For nearly two years, the Ivy Community Association has battled Faulconer Construction's plans to move its heavy-equipment operations to historic Morgantown Road. With a meeting of the Albemarle County Planning Commission looming, the group is prepared to bring out its heavy guns: fifth graders. The kids have taken a crash course in local government and zoning issues, thanks to Angela Stokes, whose day job is with the Center for Politics' Youth Leadership Initiative. Stokes has a first grader who attends Murray Elementary School on narrow Morgantown Road, which school buses may soon have to share with Faulconer's bulldozers. So far, 12 students have signed up for Stokes' after school classes, including two first graders. "The primary goal is for them to learn how local government works. They'll learn about zoning, and what words like 'buffers' and 'critical slope waiver' mean," explains Stokes. "They'll also learn the concept of activism, what it means to be an activist– and the importance of doing research." The students will prepare one- to two-minute presentations that could be presented to government bodies– like the Planning Commission, whose upcoming February 4 meeting will determine whether Faulconer's new site plan and its critical slope and curvilinear parking waivers are approved, but Stokes says speaking will depend on the comfort level of the child. They'll also learn other ways they can get involved, such as letter writing or marching. Stokes is vice president of the Murray Parent Teacher Organization, but her activism-for-beginners class is independent of the PTO and the school. With much of the Murray Elementary and surrounding Ivy community against Faulconer setting up shop on the 27 acres it owns in the Ivy Industrial Park, is there any danger these kids are being railroaded by their parents into becoming a strategic element of the opposition? "With everyone I've talked to," says Stokes, "the parents introduced it, and the kids said, 'I want to do this.' They've seen the pictures of the Faulconer property or been on it. It's a pretty powerful thing because this is happening near their school. They've all been pretty vocal." The Ivy Community Association was born almost as soon as Faulconer submitted its first site plan for the land in 2001. Members whipped out checkbooks to hire an attorney and sue the county over its determination that storing road construction equipment– including explosives– falls within the property's light industrial zoning. The group currently is represented by former city mayor Frank Buck. How does Faulconer Construction feel about having school kids join the fight against its new facility? Neither its president, Jack Sanford, nor its attorney, Rick Carter, returned The Hook's calls. Stokes insists the children are not being exploited as pawns in the battle. "We're giving them both sides of the issue," she says. "They're speaking as informed citizens, not as six-year-olds being cute. They're speaking from the heart." While school board member Gary Grant has some reservations about children being used for political purposes– for example, when a candidate parades his young children in front of the camera– he doesn't think that's the case in the Murray venture. "This looks like good, clean civic education to me and a tremendous real life, real time learning experience for whoever gets involved," he says. Furthermore, Stokes thinks this sort of civic engagement in a real situation could do something about teen apathy toward government. "They could be a part of something that could grow and evolve," she says.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line706
__label__wiki	0.572454	0.572454	The Courageous State: Rethinking Economics, Society and the Role of Government In The Courageous State, Richard Murphy argues that neoliberalism has bred weak governments led by weak politicians who believe implicitly in the supremacy of the market. It has created a cowardly state: a state that sees responsibility and then runs away from it. Worse, the weak politicians who run our cowardly state want power solely to ensure that as much tax revenue as possible is used to benefit the private sector that they idolise. But neoliberal theory is wrong – it has created the crises we’re suffering. And it has no solution to them. The Courageous State argues powerfully for a new economic model. That model is based on a very different idea of what the role of the state is. The Courageous State is driven by its desire to work on behalf of the people of this country. And that means a Courageous State is populated by politicians who believe in government and in the power of the office they hold. They believe that office exists for the sake of the public good. They know what that public good is. They think it is their job to help each and every person in their country to achieve their potential, sustainably, in a strong mixed economy. And they believe they can command the resources to fulfil this task – whether through tax or other means. A Courageous State offers hope; our existing, cowardly, state does not. Which is why building a Courageous State is essential if we want to both solve our current problems and build a sustainable future. The question is, are you willing to be that Courageous? 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The creation of the cowardly state What the cowardly state represents The need for a Courageous State Where markets go wrong The cappuccino economy Why this book needed to be written A new economic model The way to achieve our potential An approach to poverty The effect of money on well-being The right of the state to intervene Finding solutions to the challenges Creating a state of hope Part 1 Why we need the state Chapter 2 The crisis of confidence in the state The development of the cowardly state The consequences of the cowardly state How did we get a cowardly state? Chapter 3 The economic myths The fundamental flaws in neoliberal thinking Putting this in context – or why we’re in a mess right now Some excuses and some other flaws The consequences Chapter 4 The myth of the market The role of the state The state as market overseer The state as service provider Accounting for externalities The Courageous State and society Chapter 5 The cappuccino economy The correct mix The final component Assembling the mix Getting the most out of the final product Chapter 6 Where only the state may venture Where the private sector does not always work best Why markets are inefficient in practice Why we can’t afford markets in essential services Where the markets don’t meet needs The pensions dilemma Where the market failed Market constraints The need for real capital investment The custodian of hope Chapter 7 Financing government activity The right to tax The power of taxation Redistribution of wealth Part 2 The theory of the Courageous State Chapter 8 A new economic model The existing model The basis for a new model The economic dilemma Recognising potential Defining potential Making sense of these ideas Putting potential on the map The limit to potential Our different needs Absolute poverty Relative poverty Understanding the area of achievement Working within our limits Chapter 9 The problem is caused by other people How to achieve our potential Choosing what to achieve Chapter 10 Cash ain’t king The value of money Money and the real economy Over-consumption relative to capacity The influence of advertising Corporate motivation Borrowing to fund current consumption The consequences of borrowing Borrowing for asset acquisition The lender’s viewpoint What happens when cash is king Types of financial flow The consequences of the cash relationships in society Chapter 11 Delivering the Courageous State Extremes of wealth and democracy are incompatible The goal of social democratic government So how is the courageous state delivered? The role of tax in the economy Empathy and redistribution Tax and redistribution The five Rs of taxation Fiscal policy – and why it’s so much more useful than monetary policy The other tools of macroeconomic management The attributes of a good tax system Chapter 12 – Summary of Part 2 arguments Chapter 13 Identifying the Courageous State Recognising the Courageous State Chapter 14 Constraining the world of feral finance Create Financial Transaction Taxes A Spahn tax A ban on short selling Loan of shares Splitting banks State ownership of the payment platforms used by clearing banks Taxing banks Stopping tax relief on the excess incomes of those speculating Taming tax havens Tax on investment income Equal taxation of capital gains Close the tax loopholes that encourage excess saving Restrictions on buy-to-let speculation Treasury Deposit Receipts Chapter 15 Rebuilding the role of the state Close the tax gap Regulate business properly Stop privatisation of natural monopolies Create country-by-country reporting so multinational corporations are accountable Only procure from companies with acceptable business policies Create a Green Investment Bank Funding the new economy Chapter 16 Building a balanced, sustainable economy Progressive taxation Simpler taxation Wealth taxes Tax and interest Taxes on advertising Ban on advertising to children Multiple rates of VAT Promote repair and recycling Increasing the minimum wage Protecting union rights Industry wages boards Industrial training boards Extra tax relief for employing people Reorganising the structure of the workplace Chapter 17 Supporting the broader goals of the Courageous State Reforming education Higher education should be free Maximum working hours Care for elderly Relocating work Chapter 18 Cooperating internationally Closing down tax havens Country-by-country reporting International tax agreements – unitary taxation Peace keeping – not war “Since the 2008 crash conventional economists have run out of ideas. But Richard Murphy abounds with them. He writes with electric clarity about what went wrong and what could be done to put things right. He is a new economic thinker, no mere theoretician but guided by a sharp and practical accountant's eye. He knows where the money is hidden, who has it and how to release it. Murphy is the closest thing to a one-man think tank and he is as courageous as he says our politicians should be." Polly Toynbee, The Guardian newspaper columnist and economics commentator "Richard Murphy is a rare voice of sanity at a time of economic madness. We desperately need an alternative to austerity - and with a few more Murphys, we'll get it." Owen Jones, author of Chavs: the Demonisation of the Working Class "Richard Murphy is an incendiary device thrown into the heart of the economic policy establishment. The Courageous State explodes off the page with a blistering critique of the status quo, a startling new take on economic theory and a set of recommendations which could improve our lives in very short order if only our politicians had the conviction to apply them." Howard Reed, founder of Landman Ecomomics, fomerly Chief Economist at the Instutute for Public Policy Research and the Institute of Fiscal Studies "Rich individuals, corporations, well-funded special interest groups and much of Fleet Street is on one (the wrong) side and then there is Richard Murphy..the heroic figure. Tireless and forensic, driven by an admirable moral fervour, I take my hat off to a campaigner with Duracell batteries." Kevin Maguire, Sunday Mirror About Richard Murphy Richard Murphy is a chartered accountant and economist. He has been described by the Guardian newspaper as an “anti-poverty campaigner and tax expert”. Keven Maguire, associate editor of the Daily Mirror has said: "We’ve got to take sides on tax. Rich individuals, corporations, well-funded special interest groups and much of Fleet Street is on one (the wrong) side and then there is Richard Murphy plus a few others, including yours truly. But it is Murphy who is the heroic figure. Tireless and forensic, driven by an admirable moral fervour, I take my hat off to a campaigner with Duracell batteries." A graduate in Economics and Accountancy from Southampton University he was articled to Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co in London. He subsequently founded a firm of accountants in London which he and his partners sold in 2000. In parallel with his practice career Richard was chairman, chief executive or finance director of more than 10 SMEs. Since 2003 Richard has been increasingly involved in economic and taxation policy issues. He was a founder of the Tax Justice Network and is director of Tax Research LLP which undertakes work on taxation policy, advocacy and research for aid agencies, unions, NGOs and others in the UK and abroad. Richard Murphy has been responsible for introducing many new issues into debates on tax policy. In particular he created the entirely new accounting concept of Country-by-Country reporting that is now being considered for adoption by the European Union, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, International Accounting Standards Board and others. Country-by-Country reporting requires a multinational company to publish a proper loss account each and every jurisdiction in which it trades, without exception, and is seen as as a mechanism for holding multinational corporations to account for their activities in developing countries, the extractive industries and tax havens. It will also assist the monitoring of corporate transfer mispricing and is believed to cost developing countries tens and maybe hundreds of billions of dollars a year as well as corporate tax and governance risk in multinational corporations. As principal researcher of the Tax Justice Network from its inception until 2009 Richard helped put the tax haven issue on the international agenda as principal author of such works as ‘Tax Us If You Can’, ‘Closing the Floodgates’, ‘Creating Turmoil’ and the extensive analysis underpinning TJN’s Secrecy Jurisdictions website and its Financial Secrecy Index. During the course of this work he defined what a secrecy jurisdiction is and this term has as a result been widely used in international dialogue on tackling tax abuse through what were previously known as tax havens. The practical consequences of this work can be seen in changes imposed upon the tax systems of locations such as Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, all resulting from his exposure of their failure to comply with international requirements. Richard’s work for the TUC, PCS and others on the tax gap in the United Kingdom has also put this issue on the UK tax agenda. It was not part of taxation debate until the TUC published his report ‘The Missing Billions’ in 2008. It is now the main priority of H M Revenue & Customs’ business plan. Richard is also a principal author of many of the proposals made by the Green New Deal group in the UK, which has had a significant influence on political debate in the UK and beyond. He has written extensively on tackling the UK’s deficit without imposing cuts on the most vulnerable in society. Richard has written widely, and blogs frequently. He has appeared in many radio and television documentaries on taxation issues. He has also presented written and oral evidence to select committee committees of the House of Commons and House of Lords. Richard has been a visiting fellow at Portsmouth University Business School, the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and at the Tax Research Institute, University of Nottingham. Richard was voted the seventh most influential left wing thinker in 2010/11 in a Left Foot Forward poll, making him the highest ranked UK based economist on the list. More in this category: « Not Every Bank is Goldman Sachs - Tracking the rise of algorithmic machines and high frequency trading through a deregulated investment world There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch »	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line714
__label__cc	0.710065	0.289935	Architectural Tour of Russia From affordable accommodations to world-class hotels, Russian Art Tour will create an itinerary that suits your group's budget, preferences and goals. Whether you are traveling via plane or cruise ship we can arrange a tour of a lifetime. You will have a highly trained English-speaking guide with you at all times and you will travel in an air-conditioned private car or mini bus. We supply you with a complementary Visa Support Letter when booking a tour. For cruise boat passengers we offer a complementary three day on shore visa. Russian Architecture Tour A tour given by university experts on over two hundred years of Russian architecture to include: Soviet style, Empire style, Art Nouveau, Stalin's Skyscrapers and Russian Baroque. Location: Moscow & St. Petersburg Size: Any group size Guided sightseeing tour by car in the Modern Center, entrance in the Art Nouveau Center. Tour at the Latvian National Museum of Art. Full day guided tour by car to the region Latgale, visiting in the Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, situated in Daugavpils Fortress. Location: Riga, Latvia Visit the ancient towns around Moscow full of small wooden houses, beautiful churches, and monasteries. See the golden-domed Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir and Suzdal’s Kremlin dates from the 10th century. Lithuania Tour Tour beautiful St. Stanislaw’s Cathedral and the oldest university in Eastern Europe. Stroll the main street of Old Town on Pilies or Castle street, Old Jewish Quarter and the baroque-style St. Peter and Paul Church, all the while teaching you about the city’s medieval period. Location: Vilnius, Lithuania Length: 1 Day Tolstoy Estate Tour Visit Yasnaya Polyana, the former estate of the famous Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Visit Tula southwest of Moscow. Tolstoy was born in the house, and where he wrote both War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Location: Tula Size: 1 person and up Day 1: Vilnius, Lithuania Day 2: Trakai – Rundale Palace - Riga Day 3: Riga city – Local Product Tasting Day 4: Riga – Sigulda - Tallinn Day 5: Explore Tallinn Location: Vilnius, Riga, Sigulda, Tallinn	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line723
__label__wiki	0.556336	0.556336	Home / Recreation / Games / Games Debuting at Gen Con Pt. 1 Two months ago we had the pleasure of attending the Origins Game Fair and previewed dozens of brand new games just hitting the market. Long hours and tons of fun were the highlight of the extended weekend, and I’m sure we’ll be back next year to do it all again. But before that happens, something bigger must be attended to. In just a couple weeks begins the nation’s largest game convention, Gen Con, and this year it’s a special one! It’s their 50th Anniversary! Once again SahmReviews will make the trek across the Midwest to preview the scores of new titles for sale and even get a sneak peek at some yet to be released! Last year we scooped all the major game-industry sites by getting inside information on Flick ’em Up – Dead of Winter, grabbed a copy of Seafall and played early versions of a couple Asmodee titles, Inis and Hit Z Road! There’s no telling what we’ll discover and report on this year! Of course we’re excited to see what new games have finally made their way to the convention and are ready to be purchased for the first time at Gen Con. We polled all of the game companies we’ve presented in the past, and they provided an extensive list of brand new titles available at Gen Con for the first time! Although our list has well over 60 brand new games for this one event, we know there are quite a few more that are still under wraps because companies weren’t sure if they’d hit the shores in time for opening day. If you’re headed to Gen Con, you’ll want to look through this list and start making plans on which booth(s) to visit early to get your copy before they run out. If you’re not one of the fortunate ones to be attending in person, don’t fret – this list simply means these games are as close to being on the shelves of your local game store (or Amazon) as possible! Here is the first half of an alphabetical listing of companies and the games they are debuting at the Gen Con! (booth #701) Automobiles: Racing Season The Automobiles: Racing Season expansion adds multiple elements to the Automobiles base game. First, players can adopt the role of a driver who has a special power unique to that character. Players can also acquire sponsors during the game, and each sponsor has an array of actions available to them. Automobiles: Racing Season includes three new tracks, two smaller ones on half of the game board and a larger one on the reverse side of the entire board. Cards are included for these boards and those in the base game, and now players can compete in a season of multiple tracks, keeping their driver for the entire season and (more importantly) keeping their bag intact as they move from one track to another, thereby supercharging the race right from the starting line for each race past the first. (booth #1739) Dark is the Night A Hunter has set up camp in a dark and dangerous forest. In the middle of the night she is awakened by a sound in the darkness, just outside the light of her small fire. Again! A guttural growl informs the Hunter that she is not alone. To survive this night, the Hunter will need keen wits and sharp aim with her crossbow. In Major General: Duel of Time, each player has a set of eight Order cards which they play beside the battlefield, overlaying existing orders. All orders for both players that are still showing are resolved after each card is played. Control the most territories at the end of the game to win! Sheriff of Nottingham: Merry Men Expansion The rumors about smugglers are all over Nottingham’s alleys. In the last year, the Sheriff has confiscated a lot of illegal goods, but surely he needs help! A Black Market has formed in the alleys, full of special demands from those inside. This has caused a rise in the number of smugglers, including many experienced thieves. Two Deputies were hired by the Sheriff in response. Prepare your illegal goods, follow the new laws, and fulfill the people’s demands! Merry Men join your group in order to profit even more! Sheriff of Nottingham: Merry Men is a collection of expansions for the hit game Sheriff of Nottingham! Included in this expansion pack are: • The 6th Player expansion, where the honorable Sheriff has hired two Deputies to assist in the confiscation of illegal goods. • The Black Market, where demand for contraband is high, and so are the rewards for those Merchants willing to take a risk! As well as Special Orders, that Merchants can fulfill for added profits. • Laws. Passed down from Prince John, this expansion brings about changes to the game, adding variance to the goods that can be brought into Nottingham. • The Merry Men, outlaws of notoriety that wreak havoc if smuggled into Nottingham, for great reward (and risk) to Merchants choosing to provide them assistance! You have just infected a patient. Your objective is to mutate and take over the host’s organs. Choose your strategy carefully, though, because other players’ viruses are sure to get in your way! If too many viruses are present in an organ, a CRISIS occurs and the IMMUNE SYSTEM will surely wipe out your infection! VIRAL is a 2-5 player game where players strive to control organs in a human body, with deep strategy and fluid game-play, players will have difficult and rewarding choices to make each round! Bananagrams, Inc. & Big Potato Games The Chameleon is a family-friendly, social bluffing game, devised by legendary board game inventor Rikki Tahta, creator of Coup. If you are the hidden Chameleon, your mission is to stay undetected and work out the secret code word. If you aren’t the Chameleon then you must track down that elusive Chameleon without giving away the secret word. If the wrong person is accused, the real Chameleon escapes. If the Chameleon is caught, they have one last chance to escape by guessing the secret word. Cobra Paw Ninja-like reflexes, sharp recognition skills, and mental fortitude steals the game in our new tile-snatching challenge known as Cobra Paw! Players take turns rolling the dice (featuring 6 unique symbols), spotting the tile with the matching pattern, then grabbing it before their opponents. The first player to snatch up 6 tiles wins the game and bestows great honor to the Grand Shidoshi, Master Meow! Whistle Stop In Whistle Stop, you’ll make your way west across the country, using your fledgling railroad company to build routes, pick up valuable cargo and deliver needed goods to growing towns, creating a network of Whistle Stops that you and your competitors can leverage as you continue to expand your networks. Along the way, you’ll gain shares in other railroads and watch your reputation soar with each successful delivery before making a final push to complete long hauls to the boom towns of the West. King Frog King Frog is a fast-paced game about frogs moving around the pond. Players try to stay in the game for as long as possible and land on the right spot, because today, the new king of the frogs will be chosen. Your goal is to remain afloat for as long as possible, outlasting your opponents as you hop around the pond. But hop ahead wisely. If you land on a water lily that is not your color, you will have to pay penalty! Spatial thinking, clever planning and a bit of luck make King Frog an engaging game for two to four players aged seven years and up. King Frog takes about 15 minutes to play. The game is artful, fun and develops strategic thinking, so it is a must-try for all young players. Reef Route Reef Route is a fun and tactical game about life in the ocean in which players help small tropical fish outmaneuver opponents while staying clear of predators! The first fish to safely reach the reef or the last fish still alive and swimming wins the game. The game is for two to four players aged five years and up and takes about 15 minutes to play. The movements of the little fish teach kids spatial thinking, basic strategies and sportsmanship. Woo-Hoo Woo-Hoo! is an adorable roll & move game for little children with a 3D elephant slide game board that players will climb up and slide down during the course of the game. The aim is to go down an elephant slide and land in the sandbox to collect toys left by children. The game is for two to four players aged three years and up and takes about 20 minutes to play. Woo-Hoo stands out with a trunk slide that little players can assemble themselves. This incredibly fun game helps kids learn counting skills, basic strategies and sportsmanship. Asking for Trobils Wacky sci-fi worker placement game for 2-7 bounty hunters, catch the Gen Con deal and promo ships! Brotherwise Games, LLC Long ago, your ancestors built great cities across the world. Now your tribe of Delvers must explore forests, deserts, islands, caverns, and mountains to find these lost cities. Claim the ruins, build places of power, and restore the glory of a bygone age. Unearth is a dice placement game for 2-4 players. In this compelling strategy game, players must balance two paths to victory. Your goal is to climb to the highest level of the structure. To help with your climb, you may move and rotate blocks. Ladders can be used to climb large distances. Your blocking disk will prevent other players from using a specific block. Use your tools wisely and at the right time to make the best possible moves in your adventure to the top! The Ruhr Players transport and sell coal to cities and factories along the Ruhr river. By selling coal, players acquire unique abilities. In the beginning, players have access only to low value coal. By selling coal to certain locations, players gain access to high value coal. Additionally, players will build warehouses, build locks, and export coal to neighboring countries, all in the pursuit of the most victory points. You are about to enter a shared dream with your friends. It may take you on a wild adventure under the sea, or to a faraway land, or even soaring through the stars. In Dream On, you will tell the story of your dream together, one card at a time. When you wake up, you’ll work together as a team to remember everything that happened, before the story slips away from you. The better you’re able to recall the story of the dream, the more points you’ll earn. But don’t worry if your memory is a little foggy, you can rely on your teammates to help you out! Dream On is a fast, simple, cooperative game with stories you’ll want to relive again and again. Gateway Uprising Magic was outlawed in the city of Gateway when the evil Chancellor Gideon took over control many years ago. However, he couldn’t snuff out its use entirely, and now you’re going to have to rely on the old traditions if you hope to save the city. Monstrous beings, the Drueggar Horde, threaten to destroy Gateway. You’ll have to acquire the knowledge of new spells and recruit a ragtag team of rebels to fight at your side. Gateway Uprising is a unique combination of deckbuilding and area control. You’ll have to balance working together with your opponents to fight off the Drueggar Hordes, with taking control of districts by yourself. You share common goals, but in the end, there will be only one winner, or if the city falls… none. Running an up and coming criminal organization is no easy task. You have to surround yourself with people you can trust, complete jobs to bring in money, and spend it wisely on bribing city officials. It doesn’t help that you’re competing with other aspiring crime families, each looking to grab a piece of the pie in 1940s New York City. In The Godfather: Corleone’s Empire, you’re trying to earn enough money so that your organization is in a position to take over control of the city if Don Corleone were ever to meet with an unfortunate accident. Plan your actions carefully, fight for control of your turf, and above all, trust no one, not even family. If you’re able to be the richest mobster at the end of the fourth act, you’ll become the new Don. Enjoy it while you can. It’s never long before a new young mobster will come gunning for you and you might end up facedown in the Hudson. In Massive Darkness, you’ll join forces with the other players to enter the underground lair of the Darkness. You’ll work together, jumping from shadow to light, engaging the enemy when the moment is right. The minions of the Darkness can be anything from orcs, to goblin warriors, to giant spiders. You’ll never know what creatures await you around every corner. Play the quests in order to follow the storyline, or create your own legends using the tokens and modular board tiles. The Lightbringers won this war once before. Now it’s your turn to add your names to the history books! (Room 231, 232) Codenames: Duet You and your partner are on a secret mission to a crowded city. Your objective: to contact 15 agents while avoiding a band of enemy assassins. You know the agents that your partner can contact safely. Your partner knows the agents you can contact safely. By giving each other one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board, you try to find all the agents before your turns run out. Codenames: Duet includes 400 new words so you do not need any other Codenames game to play. On the other hand, if you own the original Codenames, you can use the word cards from the two games interchangeably. That’s a Question! Each player has a hand of hexagonal cards, with words or phrases in three color blocks on the card. On a turn, you choose a player that has a token in front of them, take that token, then present them with a question by choosing one of the three question prompts (which are all color-coded), then choosing two cards from your hand and adding the properly-colored section of those cards to the question. A sample question: “What would you miss more if it ceases to exist: Facebook or doors?” That player secretly votes on A or B, while everyone else but the questioner secretly votes A or B depending on how they think the person will answer; a voter can optionally add their 3x scoring token to their vote. Once everyone votes, you reveal the tiles. Everyone who voted correctly moves ahead one or three spaces on the scoring track, and the questioner moves ahead one space for each person who voted incorrectly. If you pass a certain space on the scoring track, you retrieve your 3x token (if you’ve used it). Since you can ask a question only of those with a token in front of them, everyone is asked roughly the same number of questions, and whoever has the most points after a certain number of rounds wins. Devious Weasel Games Bemused is a strategic “ruin your rivals” game with asymmetric player powers, hidden information, and private agendas. Each player is a muse, a timeless being that has inspired artists since the dawn of human creativity. Each muse has chosen a human virtuoso as their protégé and seeks to elevate that virtuoso to the pinnacle of artistic glory by removing that virtuoso’s rivals from contention. To accomplish this, the players take turns placing doubt and dread cards on each other’s virtuosos, thereby lowering their scores and driving them closer to insanity and death, while using their own virtuoso’s unique ability to manipulate doubt and dread cards already in play. When a virtuoso’s card accumulates sufficient doubt and dread, that virtuoso goes insane or dies. But fear not! Insane virtuosos may regain their sanity and dead virtuosos have their own path to victory. The game ends when only one sane virtuoso remains or all the virtuosos have been driven insane or killed. At Gen Con, each copy of Bemused will come with two quick reference cards and the designer will be present at the booth to sign copies. Devir Games Fast Food Fear Monsters at the Legoblah! swamp prefer fast food nowadays: it’s quick, convenient and you can eat some of the most disgusting junk in the world. Fast Food Fear is a cooperative game in real time for a close-knit team of 3-6 cooks: keep an eye on the hourglass and coordinate your teamwork to serve all the customers correctly and in time! Fireside Games will have Hotshots available for sale at Gen Con and will be handing out the River promo tile for the game. Hotshots is Fireside’s new cooperative, press-your-luck firefighting game, releasing on September 20, 2017. It’s designed by Justin De Witt, who is also the creator of the hit cooperative game Castle Panic. In Hotshots, the forest is on fire, and only you and your elite crew of Hotshots can put it out and save resources from the thirsty flames. Use special abilities to work together as you fight the blaze. Lay Firebreaks, reduce Flames, generate Reward Tokens, and maneuver Vehicles before 8 tiles are Scorched and the land is lost. Head of Mousehold Wise clan leaders know the old saying: “The second mouse gets the cheese!” Now it’s time to claim your cheese supremacy! In Head of Mousehold, you are the leader of a mouse clan battling for cheese morsels in a house full of traps! Carefully choose the best mice to send on perilous missions in order to outwit the opposing mouse families. Place your mouse cards under the right mousetraps and claim the most cheese points by the end of the week. Have the most cheese points at the end of five game turns, and you win! Museum Heist Don’t get fooled by our innocent looking bandits. In their sights are the most precious pieces of art and jewelry the museum has on display. The security systems are no match for their wits; their only obstacle is each other’s treachery. Museum Heist™ is a subtle game of bluff and deceit where players assume a hidden identity in an effort to conceal their malicious moves and be the first to grab the museum’s prized possessions. Museum Heist™ is the brainchild of the venerated Alex Randolph. It is easy to learn and will delight families and seasoned players alike. Go Nuts For Donuts Time to take the donuts! A tray of tempting treats awaits your bid in this freshly baked card game. Will you go for a stellar cruller or grab a glorious glazed? A double chocolate is sure to score, but in the long run Boston cream may be worth more! Choose carefully – if two or more players go for the same donut, nobody gets it! End with the highest score and victory will taste sweet! A special “Bacon” promo card will be available with purchase at Gen Con. One finger touching chin! Two hands touching! Hand on a knee! You must keep obeying all the instructions simultaneously and still manage to draw a card. It gets very silly very quickly. There will be a few sample decks available for free. Lazer Ryderz™ Lazer Ryderz™ is a trackless racing game for up to 4 players with light push-your-luck, area denial, and strategy elements. Players construct their lazer paths with various pre-formed punchboard pieces that are placed according to speed and desired direction. Champions of Midgard: The Dark Mountains This expansion for Champions of Midgard extends your adventures to distant lands, allowing you to trek into the dark mountains, where the Bergrisar live and wage constant battle with the Archer Clans of the North. Fight fearsome mountain giants and liberate archers who join your cause. Once freed, you will find the archers to be worthy allies, rarely missing and being exceptional hunters. The Dark Mountains expansion adds a ton of new content to the base game, including the ability to play with up to 5 players, new land journeys, a new Enemy type (Bergrisar), more powerful Trolls and Draugr, as well as additional Rune Cards, Market Tiles, and more. Champions of Midgard: Valhalla Valhalla is the second expansion for Champions of Midgard. In Valhalla, you will find yourself rewarded when your warriors die in battle. Your warriors’ eternal glory becomes your earthly reward as the Valkyries bestow powerful effects, relics, and warriors upon you for use in your battles in Midgard. Some of your fallen soldier may do more, rising to face the greatest enemies even in the afterlife, defeating epic monsters and bringing you glory from beyond the grave! Couple these new rewards with fierce new warriors in the form of Berzerkers and Shieldwarriors, and new custom dice and powers for your leaders, and your adventures in Midgard will never be the same! Outpost: Siberia is a fully cooperative, survival game that plays with a single deck of cards. Using an inventive dual-facing system, a single card in Outpost can be anything from life-saving supplies to cataclysmic catastrophes. By enduring relentless weather and defeating untamable beasts, players are rewarded with the much-needed tools and food to continually resupply their resources. In Seikatsu, players take turns placing tiles into a shared garden area, with each tile showing a colored flower and colored bird. Players score for groups of birds as they place them, but they score for rows of flowers only at the end of the game and only for the rows of flowers that exist from their perspective, i.e., that are viewable as lines from where they sit at the game board. Torres is an abstract game of resource management and tactical pawn movement. Players are attempting to build up castles and position their knights to score the most points each turn. Players have a limited supply of knights and action cards that allow special actions to be taken. Efficient use of pieces and cards, along with a thoughtful awareness of future possibilities, is the heart of this game. Bunny Kingdom is a game for 2 to 4 players, in which you are Rabbit Lords who are conquering a new world on behalf of the Bunny King. You will need to get the best of what these lands have to offer. Explore the furthest corners, construct Cities, farm Resources to make your Fiefs prosper, and accumulate precious Golden Carrots. Don’t forget to satisfy the King by accomplishing Missions of the utmost discretion on behalf of His Majesty! Every choice can bring you laurels of victory, but in the end, only the most valiant among you will be named “Big Ears” by the Bunny King. Will you be worthy? Indie Boards and Cards Aeon’s End: The Outer Dark The Outer Dark is an expansion for the cooperative deckbuilding game Aeon’s End. This expansion features two new nemeses and two new breach mages, as well as player cards and nemesis cards. Aeon’s End: The Void The Void is an expansion for the cooperative deckbuilding game Aeon’s End. This expansion features two new nemeses and two new breach mages. Aeon’s End: War Eternal Gravehold remains the last bastion of The World That Was. As the otherworldly incursions from the creatures known only as The Nameless intensify, a cadre of strange survivors emerge from the void itself. Will they be Gravehold’s salvation or its undoing? War Eternal is a standalone game compatible with the hit cooperative deck building game Aeon’s End. Players will struggle to defend Gravehold from The Nameless and their hordes using unique abilities, powerful spells, and an all new cast of dynamic characters. Featuring a number of innovative mechanisms, including a variable turn order system that simulates the chaos of an attack and deck management rules that require careful planning, War Eternal can be played alone or combined with other Aeon’s End content for a game experience like no other. Kickstarter promos will be available. BEEEEES! The buzz around the meadow is the High Queen seeks an heir. A grand test of skill and dexterity will be held to determine which fledgling queen will inherit the throne! So assemble your hive and make a beeline for the meadow! BEEEEES! is a buzzing real-time dice rolling game for 2-5 players where brains matter as much as speed. Players frantically roll dice to claim hive tiles in front of them and their neighbors. The player with the most dice on the tile strategically places it into their burgeoning hive. At the end of the game, the player that has built the best hive wins! Pirate 21! Avast ye, mateys! Lookit thar! It be a chest of gold! But how to divvy up th’ loot? Aye! Draw yer cards and watch out for yer hornswagglin’ mateys! Gamblin’ be th’ pirate way! Pirate 21 is competitive card game for 2-6 players. Each player tries to get 21 without going over. Sound familiar? It is, but in this version of 21 you have Pirates that can knock an opponent out of the round, Mates & Captains that can swap cards and Princesses to defend you. Draw your cards, and bring your best trash-talking pirate voice to the table. Witching Hour Troubles a-brewin!’ It’s exam time at School of Sorcery, the mischievous witches have crafted their strongest potions and hexes to win the coveted Witches Cup. A little eye of newt, toe of frog and wool of bat have strewn together magical objects with the ability to foil their fellow witches. Mix your potions, practice your spells, and prepare for a battle of magical proportions! Witching Hour is a card game where players compete over three rounds to control the Witches Cup. Armed with enchanted objects, they will attack, defend, and use specialty abilities to hex their rivals. The player with the fewest points at the end wins the Cup. This game of competitive sorcery will leave you spellbound. You might wish to bookmark this page as we’ll be adding more games to the list once we confirm their availability at Gen Con. Make sure you bring lots of extra spending money, you won’t want to miss out and have to wait for another print run! And if you see one of us running around at Gen Con, feel free to stop and say “Hello!”. Here’s part 2 of Games Debuting at Gen Con! 7 Misconceptions About Gen Con Games to Watch for at Gen Con Tags: Ape Games, Arcane Wonders, Bezier Games, Big Potato Games, board games, Brain Games Publishing, Brotherwise Games, Card Games, Czech Games Edition, Devious Weasel Games, Devir Games, FoxMind, Gamewright, Gen Con, GenCon, Greater Than Games, Grey Fox Games, iello, Indie Boards & Cards Aug 4, 2017 Games 8 comments A former manufacturing executive, Scott now balances his family life with ownership and backend administration of websites such as SahmReviews.com, GiftCardCollector.com and a number of other online properties. He also is an occasional writer and full-time board game fanatic. View all posts by Scott → 8 comments on «Games Debuting at Gen Con Pt. 1» Pingback: Games Debuting at Gen Con Pt. 2 - SahmReviews.com Pingback: Brightening Someone's Day with Rocks - SahmReviews.com I’m not much of a gamer, but have many friends & family who are. I am passing this great list on to them. I love, love, love games, and I really wish I could attend Gen Con. I’m looking forward to reading more about your experience! Awesome list. I am sharing it with my nephew he might find something he likes. Pingback: Mega Giveaway Day 22 - Beeeees Game - SahmReviews.com Pingback: Major General - Duel of Time Game Overview - SahmReviews.com Will you guys be doing another one of these?	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line724
__label__wiki	0.536692	0.536692	Cards, Casino, Lottery Mods & Scenarios Strategy & War Home » Games » Arcade » Cosmo Bots Cosmo Bots Addiction Factor: Publisher: Retro 64 Cosmo Bots takes its cue from the addictive classics Jezzball and Qix. However, that's where the similarity ends, because Cosmo Bots has different shapes for each level, 3D rendered graphics, digital sound, new enemies, and tons of power-ups. The free version features a full set of 50 levels to play, and does not require any special hardware. In CosmoBots you try to fill areas of a board by sending out lines in opposite directions from your bot. You can choose to send these lines out either horizontally or vertically. Once you have boxed out an entire section, it fills in. The goal is to fill in a set amount of the board. With 577 levels there is plenty here to keep you playing for a long time. Linkomania: If You Sell Links On Your Blog Or Website, Please Let Us Know One Of Biggest Collections Of Free SEO Guides Online Why do we need love? Grab Your Free $500 Target Gift Card. One Per Person, Must Be A US Resident Over 18. Man Receives Paychecks Five Years After Leaving Job, Pockets $469,000 Before Getting Arrested Swivel Sweeper The worst game I've ever had the displeasure of playing. By Scilian on Sun, 2011-07-10 08:39 Pros: Catchy opening theme Cons: Too Exspensive, Dull, Unchallenging, no online leaderboards, repetitive, unoriginal Listed at $17.99, I think its safe to say the free trial was too expensive for my taste in regards to the twenty minutes of my time Ill never get back. The gameplay revolves around an enclosed space... A great Qix clone By Me0w on Thu, 2010-01-28 06:07 Pros: Good graphics and music, interesting new ideas Cons: Too expensive, not very original Cosmo Bots is basically a clone of the old arcade game called Qix. The main task in the game is to fill out a majority of the board area by sending out lines from your "bot", which is controlled by... Retro 64's Comso Bots is a Good Game But Not Great By Inspector34 on Wed, 2009-11-11 18:34 Pros: 1. Unique and interesting gameplay 2. Good graphics and sound 3. Easy to play Cons: 1. Repetitive gameplay 2. Levels look similar within episodes or groups Cosmo Bots is a game reminisent of the Arcade game Qix which has been around since the 80's. It is basically a squiggly line that you have to trap by blocking off squares. The game can be fun for... Worth the play!!!!!! By Djaraiceonfire on Mon, 2009-10-19 20:30 Pros: Really good first impression. Awesome animations and graphics. Good sounds Easy to play and understand. Easy to navigate the menu. Cons: Not too special, though its unique. Price is too high for this. When i saw the thumbnail pic of the Cosmo Bots, i thought that the game should be one of those common Arcade games. but i was intrigued by the creative type of game it was once i started playing it.... Good, but for 17.99 I want great, By Onizuka on Thu, 2009-10-01 14:18 Pros: Simple and simplistic gameplay, Good Techno soundtrack Cons: Uninteresting graphics and animations, Price too steep for the material Not much to hook you in during the difficult levels Cosmo Bots is a nice, simple game for the PC. The kind of game that you’d use to waste time at work or anything along the lines of that, but for $17.99, it’s definitely lacking of material. Cosmo... Interesting, but not worth $17.99 By Chiddy on Mon, 2009-09-07 06:01 Pros: nice techno music; character models are well animated; fun for those times when you have nothing to do Cons: dull interface; overpriced; basically the equivalent of a monotonous internet game Cosmo Bots has an interesting concept, but the game would have been better as a free online game. The music, while entertaining, has little substance and consists of a generic techno beat. The levels... By dh10166 on Fri, 2009-08-21 04:08 Pros: Good graphics, it is very easy to learn how to play and lots of levels Cons: It gets boring very quickly and repetitive At 17.99 Cosmo Bots isn't exactly breaking the bank but I would not pay that for it because of how quickly I got bored of the game. You basically have to cover 85% of the map and kill these aliens... Addictively Fun and a Great Remake of a Classic By gdub13 on Sun, 2009-08-09 08:36 Pros: Very easy to learn and play. Decent graphics and music. 577 levels!!! Cons: Somewhat unpredictable as to which side of the wall will fill in. This is a solid remake of an old-school classic.I played the heck out of jeezball in school for years on a computer and on a graphing calculator and I loved it. This version is no different now 10... Present from the Cosmos By prometheus09 on Fri, 2009-08-07 05:33 Pros: Simple concept and simple controls make this game fun and fairly addictive. Cons: Occasionally hard to get power-ups; high price. Cosmo Bots is, in simplest terms, exactly what I expected and perhaps a bit more. These sorts of games are the ones that can easily ensnare you in their grip for hours on end if you're not careful,... Excellent, addictive form of entertainment. By Robn8r on Sat, 2009-07-25 14:10 Pros: Suitable soundtrack, entertaining, addicting on a level that is not frustrating, requires high brain function and swift reflexes. Cons: Difficult if you want a game you can play with ease. This test brain power and reflexes. Out of many games I have played, this is so far one of the best. This game has over 100 levels of countless excitement and strategical decision-making. I could spend hours playing Cosmo Bots. I will...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line727
__label__wiki	0.662049	0.662049	New owner needed for stocking repair machine Ladder repairs: Lyn Noble, of Invercargill, demonstrates how to use the stocking repair machine from the 1930s-40s which her mother used to use. LYN Noble has a dilemma. She has an intriguing machine she inherited from her mother, and wants to find the right person to give it to. The machine, used to repair stockings, was brought in the 1940s by her mother, Doreen Black, and was used during the World War 2 years through to the 1950s. Before pantyhose, stockings were often made of cotton or silk. Nylon stockings were introduced in 1939 by United States chemical company DuPont and were an instant commercial success, being cheap, durable and sheer. However, when the United States entered World War 2, DuPont stopped producing nylon stockings and instead focused on refitting its factories to make parachutes, aeroplane cords and rope. The change led to a shortage of nylon stockings, and as a result some women took drastic measures, including colouring their legs with nugget and drawing a line up them with a pencil or crayon to resemble a seam. The small repair machine, powered by electricity, was made in France by Zip. It has a needle similar to a crochet hook which hooks the nylon thread through the rungs in the ladder to mend them. Mrs Noble said at first the stockings her mother mended were silk, and later nylon. During World War 2 it was not uncommon for some Invercargill women to travel to Christchurch and come back with two or three pairs of silk stockings, courtesy of the American servicemen stationed there. ‘‘If they got a ladder in them, they would come round to mum to repair them.’’ Mrs Noble has memories of watching her mother delicately repairing the ladders in the precious garments. ‘‘She charged one penny per inch, and threepence to finish them off. Mum could zip quickly up the ladder, but it was the finishing off that took the time.’’ When it was time to repair her own stockings, Mrs Noble took on the challenge. ‘‘I was okay at mending the ladders, but had to ask mum to finish them off.’’ She said her mother also had a ‘‘more modern’’ repair machine which was donated to the Southland Museum & Art Gallery in the 1990s, although she had never seen it displayed. Mrs Noble said she was downsizing and did not know what to do with the remaining machine. ‘‘I would like it to go to someone who has a museum or something similar [where it can be] put on display.’’ Í For more information phone Lynn Noble, 03 218 8350. Fire increase concerns	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line730
__label__cc	0.683697	0.316303	About Swoon Art House Residency Dinners Pellucid: Artist’s Statement On a recent trip into the depths of the earth, I had the opportunity to discover the world beneath our feet. Since that experience, I have been driven to recreate the natural subterranean phenomena into a phantasmagorical environment. The other worldly stalactites and stalagmites, the glowing pools, and the expansive glittering walls have lent themselves to the pellucid (def. pellucid: “beyond light, beyond consciousness”) of my imagination. I began the investigatory process by peeling the skin off a mica rock and sewing it, alternately, to a butterfly wing or a scrap of trash, treating each with equal reverence. Together, the parts transform the space; an undulating sea of multicolored scales moving around the viewer. The fields of color merge both the discarded refuse and the coveted butterfly wings. I have taken mica out of the ground, transformed, and then reinserted it into my own representation of a cave. The culminating effect is a prismatic noctilucent environment. The cave is a powerful symbol of refuge; a place of both power and danger. As one moves deeper into the darkness of the earth’s interior, one can more easily encounter things shadowy and risky, even death itself. The cave is a place of magical incubation and alchemical transformation. In fairy tales, legends, and history, the cave is often inhabited by threatening creatures, but it is also a place where heroines and heroes meet their own allies, or their own self. While the forces within may be dark, they hold great power and represent the unconscious forces we may have repressed or hidden. Although we are entering potentially dangerous and unfamiliar territory, we still choose to enter caves to get to the core of our nature and our power. Cultures, past and present, have recognized the aesthetic, practical, and technological uses inherent in mica. I am intrigued by it’s versatility and the dichotomy between the transparent and protective nature of the mica, the way it acts like a lens and a shield. In our dangerous era and the time of reckoning for many species, the idea that a mineral can act as a protective agent for a delicate creature is invaluable. The butterflies in Pellucid come from butterfly farms. These farms have not only increased butterfly populations, but have also provided an alternate industry to the devastation of the primary rainforests. Besides having a short lifespan, butterflies require the same type of tropical climate, don’t take up much real estate, and can provide a steady livelihood. Psyche, the Greek word for butterfly, is the same word for soul. A butterfly wing is made of tiny solar panels; colorful scales of iridescent dust tipping automatically in the sunlight. The wings in Pellucid are held still in a protective layer of mica, a transparent veil of rock, strong and fragile, revealing and concealing simultaneously. To create a tension between the exterior and the interior surfaces, I formed the cave, from rock salt, into a large monolithic chunk of white rock. The rock salt is also suggestive of the essential relationship between the earth and the fluid coursing through our veins. By depositing this into the pristine environment of a museum, the exterior becomes juxtaposed with the intricate detail embedded on the colorful interior. By enclosing butterfly wings inside mica, I have created a magnified version of the minute scales. My work reveals what the human eye sees in fleeting transitory moments…A sustained complete vision; a powerful vibration of color. Pellucid I woke up and found myself sewing a stone to a wing, preserving the dust of a butterfly from a dangerous era, binding the garbage to the unconscious mind. Clandestine rites conducted inside the earth, beyond light, beyond perception, where any magical incubation is possible. A geological descent through a never-ending rain of points Minerals, the bones of the earth, hidden flowers that crawl through underground gardens, a faceted forest of gemstones, growing drop by drop, an abyss of maniacal decorations that gropes through millennium after millennium with the devotion of rainwater, the mastery of ocean waves, the hot blunt force of lava and the love of deadly dissolving bacteria. The phantasmagorical insides of the earth, a dream turned inside out, revealed in perverse form, the drip drip of time leaking through a spire of stone, Entertaining a premonition of a speleological party, an underground extravaganza, where paradise is defined as a mother’s womb and birth is inevitable. A fortuitous encounter with a rock Other worldly subterranean chamber, My skin, suddenly a sparkling dress of mica. Rebecca DiDomenico © 2019 Swoon Art House, All Rights Reserved. email us \| Visit DiDomenico Studio	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line735
__label__cc	0.58473	0.41527	Politics Random Random Agree: 2,485 Page 1 of 838 12345112651101251 ... Last Thread: Politics Random Random I don't know if this has been posted anywhere but I found an interesting political website that verifies or debunks stated facts made by politicians and others. For instance, Peter DeFazio states that "Medicare passed with virtually no Republican support." According to Politifact.com that's a false statement. More than half of House Republicans and a sizable minority of GOP in the Senate voted "yea". Another one: President Obama said, "By the end of this decade, the interest we owe on our debt could rise to nearly $1 trillion." According to Politifact.com that statement is half-true. "Lots of debt, but most estimates fall well short of $1 Trillion." Oh Grigor. You silly man. shtexas Re: Politics Random Random Site must be run by a bunch of liberals. Did anyone see the President and Seth Meyers at the White House Correspondents' Dinner? I think they both killed. jjnow I missed the Prez but caught most of Seth Meyers. Some of his punchlines fell flat but for the most part I thought he was really good. Big time improvement over Leno anyway. Pres. Obama - 2011 WH Correspondents Dinner The volume on these are much louder than the previous clip of the President. Turn your volume down before starting these. Seth Meyers - Part One Seth Meyers - Part Two "Mr. President, look at your hair. If your hair gets any whiter the tea-party is going to endorse it." Good times. Wow, Donald Trump is humorless. Of course, Seth Meyers kind of ripped him to shreds for a couple minutes. Avatar: Munchin's Favorite Matches - #10 - Andre Agassi vs. Pete Sampras - 2000 Australian Open SF "If I didn't play tennis, I would probably have to go see a psychiatrist" - Arthur Ashe Originally Posted by Kirkus Originally Posted by munchin "Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for President as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke." "Donald Trump owns the Miss USA pageant which is great for Republicans because it will streamline their search for a vice-president." "Donald Trump said recently he has a great relationship with the blacks, though unless the blacks are a family of white people, I bet he's mistaken." Even Obama couldn't stop laughing at the last one. All the while Trump just sat there with an icy stare. I bet he regretted attending. SUCK IT Trump! SUCK IT HARD! Last edited by Miles; 05-01-2011 at 12:26 AM. mmmm8 Director of Nothing Why was Donald Trump invited? I would totally watch that Joe Biden movie Why does Wolf Blitzer get to show up at this thing with Mila Kunis? Lucky bastard! Ti-Amie Silliness and Sleight of Hand By CHARLES M. BLOW President Obama buckled. On Wednesday, he released his long-form birth certificate, but not without chiding the media and his detractors for their “silliness” in forcing the issue. No sooner had he released it than Donald Quixote was off to his next windmill: the president’s college grades. Donald Trump is still playing to suspicions of President Obama. And it’s no longer theoretical. It’s theological. For the detractors, truth is no longer dependent on proof because it’s rooted in faith: faith that American exceptionalism was never truly meant to cover hyphenated Americans; faith in 400 years of cemented assumptions about the character and capacity of the American Negro; and faith that if the president doesn’t hew to those assumptions then he must be alien by both birth and faith. This is how the moneyed interests — of whom Trump is one — want it. That is how sleight of hand works: distract and deceive. They need this distraction now more than ever because the right’s flimsy fiscal argument — that if we allow fat cats to gorge, crumbs will surely fall — is losing traction. It’s losing traction with voters as the Supreme Court continues its crusade to put corporate interests above those of citizens. Just Wednesday, it ruled that there is a way for businesses to keep consumers claiming fraud from banding together in a single class-action lawsuit. It’s losing traction among workers. Gallup reported this week that a majority of Americans worry that they won’t have enough money in retirement. And that worry is well founded. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute’s annual Retirement Confidence Survey released last month, 56 percent of American workers said they have less than $25,000 in retirement savings and investments. Twenty-nine percent of those said they have less than $1,000. At the same time, the average Wall Street cash bonus in 2010 was nearly $130,000, and the Republican budget proposed by Representative Paul Ryan seeks to dismantle Medicare and lower taxes on the wealthy. It’s losing traction among young people as it was reported last week that the unemployment rate for workers ages 16 to 24 reached a record high last year, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Meanwhile, last summer, student loan debt exceeded total credit card debt for the first time, and the Republican budget seeks to slash Pell grants. It’s losing traction with families as the national average price of a gallon of gas is nearing $4, while oil companies are reaping record profits while taking billions of dollars in government subsidies. (There’s something immoral about giving handouts to entrenched corporate interests with armies of lobbyists while seeking to cut those to hungry children, struggling families and frail seniors.) It all loses traction as more Americans begin to see the far right for what it truly is: a gang of bandits willing to sacrifice the poor and working classes to further extend the American aristocracy — shadowy figures who creep through the night, shaking every sock for every nickel and scraping their silver spoons across the bottom of every pot. In fact, Gallup reported on Thursday that unfavorable views of the Tea Party, which was cheered and championed by billionaires and business interests, had jumped to 47 percent this month, a new high, while last week it reported that approval of Congress among Republicans and independents had dropped to a depressing 15 percent. So the right needs to backfill its shaky fiscal reasoning with political segregationist rhetoric — amplifying a separation of the “us” from the “other.” State Senator Jake Knotts of South Carolina last year called President Obama — along with the state’s governor Nikki Haley, who is Indian-American and a Republican — a disparaging slur. When pressured to resign, he refused, proclaiming that: “If all of us rednecks leave the Republican Party, the party would have one hell of a void.” Do tell. This is not to say that all Republicans are tolerant of this behavior. Far from it. But the party has taken the strategic position that in some cases it’s politically advantageous to allow demagogues and xenophobes, sectarians and homophobes to not only see the party as a sanctuary but as a place to rise to its top. In the last several months, Republican state lawmakers and party officials have said the most reprehensible things about Hispanics, gays and blacks. State Representative John Yates of Georgia compared the state’s threat from illegal immigrants to the threat from Hitler in World War II and suggested that border agents should be allowed to “shoot to kill.” State Representative Curry Todd of Tennessee compared pregnant illegal immigrants to multiplying rats. State Representative Larry Brown of North Carolina suggested cutting off financing used to treat people with H.I.V. and AIDS because they are “living in perverted lifestyles.” Brown also drew criticism in October for an e-mail he sent to fellow Republicans in which he used disparaging terms about gays. And David Bartholomew had to resign as the Virginia Beach Republican Party chairman after forwarding an e-mail that joked about someone taking his “dog” to the welfare office and saying: “My Dog is black, unemployed, lazy, can’t speak English” and has no clue “who his Daddy is.” In 1965, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described how the strategy of separating people with common financial interests by agitating their racial differences was used against the populist movement at the turn of the century, explaining that “the Southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow.” He continued that Jim Crow was “a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than the black man.” He called this “their last outpost of psychological oblivion.” But the right, with a new boost of energy from Trump, is reaching for new frontiers. The language and methodology are different, but the goal is the same: to deny, invalidate and subjugate, to distract from real issues with false divisions. Trump is helping the right shape new weapons from old hatreds, forming shivs from shackles, all the while patting himself on the back and promoting his brand. But his point of pride is the right’s mark of shame. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/op...R_HP_LO_MST_FB "Even if you dance for your enemy on the rock, he will accuse you of splashing water on him." ~ African Proverb Forum Director South Central PA Just now got around to watching these. Seth Myers was spectacular. I almost felt a little sorry for Donald. Almost. Originally Posted by Ti-Amie That should be required reading for everyone. Too much truth for a lot of people, though. Quick Navigation Talk About Other Stuff Top	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line736
__label__cc	0.500323	0.499677	← Mai-Kai cocktail review: Hot Buttered Rum is a heart-warming winter classic Mai-Kai cocktail review: The timeless appeal of this classic is no Mystery → Behind the magic: A backstage tour of The Mai-Kai’s mysterious bars and kitchen Posted on December 28, 2011 by Hurricane Hayward Related news, features * The Mai-Kai is here to stay: 10 reasons why we love the historic restaurant * New giant carved Tiki added to The Mai-Kai’s outdoor garden * ‘King Kai’ leads procession of new Tikis into The Mai-Kai * Google Maps: Explore The Mai-Kai in 3-D NEW: The Mai-Kai online store You can now order signature mugs and other merchandise online via the Trading Post’s new e-commerce app. * Click here to order Backstage tour posted on Dec. 28, 2011 After outliving the original mid-century Polynesian restaurant fad by more than 30 years, you would think that Fort Lauderdale’s legendary Mai-Kai would be ready for early retirement after turning 55 today. You would be dead wrong. Photo tour: Jump to the gallery below The grand old dame of Tiki is riding high as the torch-bearing icon of a new generation of Tiki-loving hipsters and cocktail lovers. Reinvigorated by this new wave of Tiki mania, a growing respect and interest in retro culture, continued support by regulars and tourists, plus a million-dollar refurbishment in 2009, The Mai-Kai is still pretty spry. It may not be the same as the late 1950s, when The Mai-Kai was the largest independent user of rum in the United States (2,000 cases were poured in 1958), but with rum and cocktails in the midst of a renaissance there’s a growing buzz emanating from 3599 N. Federal Highway. There are many reasons for The Mai-Kai’s continued success: * Family ownership, loyal management and trusted employees, some of whom remain for decades; * Jaw-dropping design and decor that cost $1 million to build in 1956 (it was the most expensive new restaurant in the United States that year), plus many additions and enhancements over the years; * The Polynesian Islander Revue, established in 1961, the longest-running authentic South Seas stage show in the United States; * And the decadent food and a one-of-a-kind cocktail menu featuring secret recipes that date back to the early days of Tiki. The Mai-Kai's outdoor Lanai dining area. (Courtesy of The Mai-Kai and Go11Media.com) All of this has been well-documented and is hard to miss when you walk into the huge complex that seats more than 700 and features eight themed dining areas, a bar and lounge resembling a turn-of-the-century seaport saloon, a gift shop, plus indoor and outdoor lush tropical gardens with numerous waterfalls and untold number of Tikis and authentic artifacts brought back from Polynesia by The Mai-Kai’s late owners, brothers Bob and Jack Thornton. But there’s another side to The Mai-Kai that guests rarely see: The inner workings of the massive 10,000-square-foot kitchen and service bars that at the restaurant’s peak served 1,600 diners a night for seven nights a week in season. Even with drastic changes in tourism and the economy, business is not off that much. On busy nights, a small army of chefs, mixolgoists, servers, performers and untold others serve as the heartbeat of The Mai-Kai. A total of 150 workers are on staff. The Mai-Kai is still operated by the Thornton family – Bob’s wife Mireille Thornton, her son Dave Levy, and her daughter Kulani Gelardi. “Mai-Kai” means “the best” in Hawaiian, and I’d like to thank the Thornton family for keeping that dedication to excellence. And I would especially like to thank general manager Kern Mattei for the following very special behind-the-scenes tour conducted between dinner shows on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. Thanks to 'Book of Tiki' author Sven Kirsten for sharing this vintage Mai-Kai floor plan on the TikiCentral.com message board. Click to enlarge. The floor plan at right shows just how large the “back of house” really is. Note that the top of the map faces south and Federal Highway runs along the left from top to bottom. Most everything to the right of the main entrance is “backstage.” Tonga is the elevated room that overlooks the stage in the main dining area. The room called Bangkok in this 1970s drawing is now the gift shop. This was one of the last major changes made after The Molokai bar was added in 1970. The old gift shop is now a storage building on the north side of the driveway, not shown on the bottom side of this map. To the left of the entrance, of course, is The Molokai and six other dining rooms. Moorea, Hawaii and New Guinea – along with the prime garden area – offer views of the stage show. Samoa is a cozy, private area with windows that face the indoor tropical waterfalls and path that leads outdoors. The Tahiti room faces the 30,000-square-foot outdoor garden of lagoons and giant Tikis plus the scenic Lanai dining area. This is the area that appears blank in the upper left of the floor plan. You can follow our tour on the map as we enter through the main kitchen entrance across from the Moorea room near the exit to the outdoor gardens. The numbers designate the main stops and will be referenced below in the tour notes and photo gallery. Stir fry is prepared at the Cantonese and Mandarin wok stations in The Mai-Kai kitchen. (Stop 1) As frequent Mai-Kai guest Jackie Gleason would say, “And awaaaaaay, we go …” Stop 1 was just inside the kitchen near the Cantonese and Mandarin wok stations. Mattei explained the difference: Cantonese is the more traditional style that dates back to the early days of Polynesian restaurants, while the smaller Mandarin woks produce food in more of a modern Chinese style. From there, we headed to the Chinese ovens (stop 2), where steak, ribs, duck and other meats are cooked with indirect smoke at temperatures up to 800 degrees. The ovens are so hot, cooks use welding gloves to reach inside. You can see the ovens, which were added several years after the 1956 opening, through the windows near the path that winds through the outdoor gardens beyond the Lanai dining area. The ovens burn Australian oak and seal the juices in the meats to ensure a great flavor. The same wood powers the adjacent flat-top oven, used to cook seafood such as lobster and fresh fish. It’s seared, then finished in the high-temperature oven. Waiters at the kitchen service bar garnish and prepare to serve Rum Barrels, Mai Tais and other cocktails to even-numbered tables in the The Mai-Kai's dining rooms. Meanwhile, a bartender finishes up a long line of Pina Coladas. (Stop 4) We passed the sautee section, where dishes such as pan-seared fish, Lobster Bora Bora, escargot, and Oysters Rockefeller are prepared. Stop 3 offered a view of the wok stations from the opposite direction. Cooks must work fast on the Mandarin woks, which use high heat for a fast sear in contrast to the Cantonese woks that simmer food slowly. One of the most famous bars in the world is tucked away deep inside the kitchen, stop 4 on our journey. Serving cocktails to all the dining rooms, it’s where legendary mixoligist Mariano Licudine plied his trade from 1956 until his 1979 retirement. We saw the two windows where servers gather up and garnish the drinks before taking them to customers. There’s a simple system: One window for even-numbered tables, one for odd. At stop 5, we got a great peek behind the bar at The Mai-Kai’s famous rum collection. Seemingly endless rows of shelves contain the many rums and liquors used in more than 50 specialty cocktails, plus any drink that may strike a patron’s fancy. A variety of aged rums are also featured on an expanded menu of sipping rums (updated January 2014). Bartenders work The Mai-Kai's kitchen service bar. The top shelf contains rare and collectible rums that date back more than 50 years. (Stop 5) But the most amazing sight is the top shelf, where Licudine’s collection of now ultra-rare and nearly one-of-a-kind bottles still sits. Tiki historian and author Jeff “Beachbum” Berry compared it to discovering mummies in a tomb. Mattei showed us a nearly empty bottle of Bacardi from pre-Castro Cuba. The only other bottle known to exist is in the Bacardi offices in Miami. (See a photo of Licudine and his his rum collection in 1962, from Berry’s excellent chapter on The Mai-Kai in Sippin’ Safari.) He pointed out the tropical mixology “speed rack” containing all the bar’s fresh juices and in-house syrups, still stocked in unlabeled bottles like they have for 55 years. This keeps bartenders from knowing exactly what each bottle contains and prevents them from stealing the secret recipes. “Bartenders have got to know what they’re reaching for based on color,” Mattei said. Mattei showed us a dark Jamaican rum called Kohala Bay, which is served at only one other bar in Florida. It’s made in the same factory by the same company that previously made the Dagger brand, which was a key rum that Licudine used in some of his most famous cocktails. This elusive flavor has frustrated many home mixologists who have attempted to duplicate Mai-Kai cocktails over the years. Click here for more on Kohala Bay and the cocktails that have featured it. Mai-Kai General Manager Kern Mattei and Hurricane Hayward pause during the tour outside the kitchen service bar. (Photo by Susan Hayward) (Stop 5) We then saw ice molds and other frozen glassware, which are kept in a special freezer in the bar. They were prepped long before the restaurant opened that day. Also prepped and kept in an adjacent walk-in freezer are pineapples used as serving vessels for the Pina Passion cocktail, plus the pineapple pieces for garnishes. Case after case are stacked and ready to go. On the way out of the kitchen, we passed the employee locker areas (which also include showers) and said aloha to a couple dancers hanging out in the lounge, waiting for the next show. This part of our tour ended in the office (stop 6), where the walls are adorned with numerous trophies and awards to employee sports teams. A framed photo of Bob Thornton taken on The Mai-Kai’s 25th anniversary shows him holding a special commemorative silver Rum Barrel, which has been on display at past events. Thornton passed in 1989 after buying out his brother in 1970, but his prescence is still strong at The Mai-Kai. Jack Thornton died in 2008. Nearby is a painting of a proposed Mai-Kai expansion that never got off the drawing board in the late 1960s. It was to feature two stories and 1,200 seats. The image lived on, however, as one of the restaurant’s many postcards. Waitresses in The Molokai pick up their drinks from a window in the front service bar. (Stop 7) After heading back into the restaurant past the gift shop, we hit The Molokai for a few drinks. After the second dinner show, Mattei gave us a quick tour of the front bar that services The Molokai (stop 7). Bartenders typically work their way up to the kitchen bar by first working here. The same manager supervises both bars. It’s a much smaller space than the back bar, with a more limited rum selection. There are two windows for The Molokai waitresses to pick up their drinks for customers, but the second window is used only on busy nights. There’s also a small kitchen area where appetizers are prepared for bar patrons. It’s a stand-alone bar that can make all the appetizers and drinks on the menu despite the close quarters. I hope this inside look at the rarely seen bars and kitchen hasn’t “spoiled the magic” for those who love The Mai-Kai’s dark and mysterious atmosphere. In this age of open kitchens and flair bartenders on full display, it’s like stepping back in time when you enter The Mai-Kai’s world of vintage mid-century South Seas wonder. Here’s hoping it never changes. Mai-Kai behind the scenes photo gallery – Nov. 12, 2011 Photos by Hurricane Hayward except where noted (Click on thumbnails to see larger images or to view as slideshow) The Mai-Kai’s outdoor Lanai dining area. (Courtesy of The Mai-Kai and Go11Media.com) Thanks to ‘Book of Tiki’ author Sven Kirsten for sharing this vintage Mai-Kai floor plan on the TikiCentral.com message board. A view toward the back of the kitchen from near the entrance. The kitchen service bar is in the back right in the photo. (Stop 1 on map) Seafood is cooked on The Mai-Kai’s flat-top oven. (Stop 2) The Mai-Kai’s Chinese ovens burn Australian oak up to 800 degrees to cook steak, ribs, duck and other meats. (Stop 2) Cooks use Mandarin woks in The Mai-Kai kitchen. (Stop 3) Rum Barrels leave the kitchen service bar through the window serving odd-numbered tables in the The Mai-Kai’s dining rooms. (Stop 4) Waiters at the kitchen service bar garnish and prepare to serve Rum Barrels, Mai Tais and other cocktails to even-numbered tables in the The Mai-Kai’s dining rooms. Meanwhile, a bartender finishes up a long line of Pina Coladas. (Stop 4) Bartenders are hard at work in The Mai-Kai’s kitchen service bar. A total of six bartenders were on duty on a Saturday night, three for each window. (Stop 5) Bartenders work The Mai-Kai’s kitchen service bar. The top shelf contains rare and collectible rums that date back more than 50 years. (Stop 5) This rare bottle of Bacardi from pre-Castro Cuba has spent some 50 years in The Mai-Kai’s kitchen service bar. (Stop 5) A mixing station in The Mai-Kai’s kitchen service bar features in-house syrups still housed in unmarked bottles so bartenders can’t figure out the secret recipes, a throwback to the early days of Tiki cocktails at Don the Beachcomber. (Stop 5) Kohala Bay from Jamaica is one of The Mai-Kai’s most distinctive rums used in its tropical drinks. It’s made by the same company that previously made the Dagger brand. (Stop 5) Bartenders mix in The Mai-Kai’s kitchen service bar while a waiter garnishes drinks before serving them to dining room customers. (Stop 5) Ice molds and other frozen glassware is kept in a special freezer in The Mai-Kai’s kitchen service bar. (Stop 5) Pineapples are prepped and ready for drinks and garnish in The Mai-Kai’s kitchen service bar. (Stop 5) Mai-Kai owner Bob Thornton holds a 25th anniversary silver Rum Barrel in a photo that hangs in the center of the back office. (Stop 6) The painting known as “The Mai-Kai that never was” hangs in the office. The design was never implemented but the artwork was used on postcards. (Stop 6) The Molokai service bar features a much smaller assortment of rums than the kitchen bar, but it includes all the new premium rums. (Stop 7) Mugs and old Rum Barrels are stashed on a top shelf in The Mai-Kai’s Molokai service bar. (Stop 7) Tour of The Mai-Kai’s back bar (June 2017) Taken by Spike Marble of The Hula Girls The Mai-Kai: Official site \| Facebook page \| Instagram * Friends of The Mai-Kai Facebook group More on The Atomic Grog * The Okole Maluna Society: The Mai-Kai Cocktail Guide * Mai-Kai tropical drink family tree * Heeeeeeere’s the rich history and lost stories of The Mai-Kai * Take 5: Interview with General Manager Kern Mattei This entry was posted in Cocktails, Cocktails, Culture, Food, History, History, Mai-Kai, Photo galleries, Restaurants, Rum and tagged Beachbum Berry, Don The Beachcomber, Fort Lauderdale, Mai-Kai, Mariano Licudine, rum, South Florida. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Responses to Behind the magic: A backstage tour of The Mai-Kai’s mysterious bars and kitchen Swanky says: One small correction. The Chinese ovens were added after 1956. I don’t have the date, but it was a big deal when they put them in as it allowed them to serve steaks, etc. Thanks Swanky, you’re right as usual. The ovens came a little later, Kern confirms. It was just woks in the very beginning. Craig Hermann says: I’ve had great luck approximating the Dagger by mixing equal parts aged Demerara (El Dorado 12) and Smith & Cross rum. Thanks for posting this tip, Craig. We tried this a while ago when you first let us know. It seems pretty darn close. But the search for Kohala Bay continues. Tiare says: I was lucky to have some pre Castro Bacardi 2 years ago over at Stephen Remsberg and it really is different – and i `m puzzled over why oh why does Bacardi not make the good flavorful white rum they used to do anymore? well…i know…the today´s white “turned to vodka” so called “superior” white rum sell like rice…but that´s because most people doesn´t know how real good rum tastes.. I also once had a bottle of Jamaican dagger rum but that is gone now…	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line749
__label__wiki	0.919157	0.919157	Never Give a Sucker an Even Break(1941) User Reviews Other Reviews Articles Money Awards Quotes Trivia Home Video Reviews Misc Notes Alternate Versions Theatrical Aspect Ratio Video Fan Sites FOR Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) YOU CAN Acting of Lead Performers Acting of Supporting Cast Music Score Historical Importance Would You Recommend? never give a sucker etc kevin sellers A bitter, tired end to a brilliantly funny career. Only in brief flashes, like the airplane stuff, is the old Fields magic fleetingly evident. C plus. Brilliant Fields idontcare Even if this looks cobbled together and the original scripts had to be expanded upon,and the 156 page script was too vulgar,I'll always remember the hilarious scene with WC jumping out after the bottle. Fields' Final Feature Settles Some Scores The great W.C. Fields' final film for his four picture, Universal contract was "Never Give A Sucker an Even Break" (1941) and in it, Fields (maybe sensing it was his last starring film ever) lays into the big studio system nitpickers who he had to fight with during his entire cinematic career. He plays "W.C. Fields", an aging film comedian, who is trying to get a film produced at a studio where they give him nothing but trouble. As he reads his script idea to the fussy Franklin Pangborn, the film becomes a film-within-a-film, with Fields' preposterous script coming to life. Also featured in the film is the underrated Gloria Jean as his niece. There was real chemistry between the old timer and the young starlet, with Gloria in later years revealing that Fields touchingly told her off screen "I wish I had a daughter like you". Though hardly a well made film (evidently Universal messed with it) and the plot is all over the place, some of the wonderful individual scenes (Fields in the diner, Fields with Margaret DuMont and the iconic car chase at the end) make the film rise above it's ramshackle construction. My favorite line was when Fields went into a malt shoppe to do a balancing act with a cherry on a straw from a drink. He looks right into the camera and says "This scene was supposed to be in a saloon but the censor cut it out". He wasn't kidding! T. Power Side splitting quips that destroy all in their wake! Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) Jay Higgins Enjoyable nonsense, with some great skits and the car chase scene at the end is a real classic. Some fun musical numbers, good cast, especially W.C.Fields and Margaret Dumont. What a delightful movie This is a sloppy little near masterpiece that feels thrown together, but that may be exactly what makes it so delightful. As we watch Fields attempt to sell a movie story to studio head Franklyn Pangborn, we get pieces of the movie within the movie --featuring Amazon princesses on a mountaintop kingdom and Field's jumping from an airplane to salvage a bottle of whiskey that has fallen out the window. There is also a painfully sincere ingenue who slips in every once an a while to give the audience a break (if she starts to sing, go in search of popcorn). Not as good a film as The Bank Dick, but silly and filled with some of Field's best and most repeated gags. *We protect your personal infortmation and will not provide it to anyone without your consent. For a complete explanation, please refer to TCM's Privacy Policy. By submitting your contribution, you agree to TCM's Terms of Use.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line758
__label__wiki	0.540159	0.540159	Cycling & Racing Club TEESDALE CRC Staindrop TT (T244/1) CLUB 10km TT Winter Social Tan Hill Pub Run (Off-Road/CX) Tuesday/Thursday Evenings (Autumn - Spring) Check the Facebook page Circa 31 Miles / Elevation 850m (2800ft) Riders meet at 6.00pm at Glaxo Sports & Social Club, Barnard Castle and head up to Tan Hill Inn, Britain's highest public house. A decent set of lights is a must, as is wet weather gear!! The route varies depending on the conditions but usually entails a mixture of mud, gravel, tarmac and sometimes snow and ice!! Again we'd encourage you to come and join us! Winter Social Club Ride... Saturday 9.00am (Autumn - Spring) Circa 45 Miles The winter club run usually starts mid-October and runs right through to the spring. Riders meet at 9.00am outside 'The Three Horse Shoes' Pub in the centre of Barnard Castle. Routes vary from week to week but are generally 45-50 miles and include a breakfast Cafe stop for 'posh coffee' and bacon butties. We encourage all local riders to come and give it a go! Summer 10km Time Trial, Ovington... Thursday Evenings - 03rd May 2018 - 26th July 2018 6.1 Miles / Elevation 76m (250ft) Teesdale CRC host the 'Club 10km TT' every Thursday evening during early to mid-summer. It is as much of a social gathering as it is about racing and league points. The race element is done by the book; there is a signing-on sheet, a number and you are started off at minute intervals. Racing is against the clock and ultimately against yourself, you don't need to spend a king's ransom on a specialist Time Trial bike, an ordinary road bike will do so come and give it a go. Round - Cyclo Cross North East - Foxberry, Richmond.. 2018 Date TBC Teesdale CRC again play host to a round of the CXNE championship in 2017. The event was well supported in it's first year and again promises a challenging course for all. Postcode DL11 7QL Please note that there are 3 farms on the road with the same postcode!! Look out for the white Foxberry Chasers sign at the end of the drive. Teesdale Mountain Time Trial, Barnard Castle... Sunday 22nd April 2018 40 Miles / Elevation 1500m (4900ft) With its reputation of being one of the toughest time trials in the country, it attracts riders from nationwide who come and test themselves against each other and the elements. The circuit leads right across the North Pennines, it’s one of a few ‘mountain’ time trials that actually earns its name and feels particularly alpine. Being fairly early in the season the wide open, exposed summit tops can be susceptible to unpredictable weather. Calendar of Events & Social Rides... Teesdale CRC SPOCCO TT - T244/1, Staindrop... 20.7 Miles / Elevation 193m (634ft) This Teesdale CRC TT event is held in March annually. It is the shortened version of the T244 which was originally used. The course is approx. 20.7 miles long, the course begins and finishes on the outskirts of the village of Staindrop. Find Out More Find Out More Find Out More Find Out More Find Out More Find Out More ©2015 Teesdale CRC. All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line760
__label__cc	0.501675	0.498325	Criminal Minds 304: Children of the Dark It’s a peaceful night in suburbia when a happy family’s evening is interrupted by… The plot of the movie Funny Games! He’s even wearing white leisure gloves instead of the traditional choice of American murderers, latex gloves. It’s not just that, either: Is this going to be a thing on the show, now? Ripping off the plots of movies, but then trying to explain the psychology of the villains? I know they did a ‘Saw’ episode last year, but for some reason I just assumed that was a fluke. Here’s hoping that this is just two aberrations, and not a pattern. Naturally we cut over to the team before the murder happens, so we’re just forced to look at gruesome crime scene photos, and not the actual deaths. They talk a little about home invasions, and how they’re ‘hard to profile’ since it’s unclear exactly what the motives are. Which,, frankly, sounds a little like the characters trying to exaggerate their profession’s importance again – there are actually only two possible motives to a series of murderous home invasions: 1) You want to rob people but don’t want to get caught (so you kill the witnesses). 2) You want to kill people (but you don’t mind stealing their stuff for a little extra cash). Since in this case we’re dealing with entire families being killed (more victims=more control problems) and very little being taken (just handfuls of jewelry), the killers have gone out of their way to pick a harder, less rewarding target just because it means they’ll get to kill more people. There, profile done. They want to kill families because they were abused as children. How hard was that? I’m kidding, of course – all serial killers were abused as children. Guessing that is like guessing that they’re carbon-based life forms. It’s a gimmie. Anyhoo, we’ll see how the team does after the opening credits! Investigating the scene the team is able to figure out that there must have been two killers (parents were bludgeoned, children were ‘put to sleep’ like animals), and that the killers use a cell phone jammer to keep their victims from being able to call the police. Meanwhile back at the local office the rest of the team figures out that these murders are likely the sequels to a series of not-otherwise-violent home invasion robberies that only recently escalated to murder. Unfortunately, since they have no idea how the killers are selecting their victims, there’s no way to find and warn the next family that, according to the show’s structure, must die! The audience is well aware of how victims are selected, on the other hand. The killers go out to the kind of restaurants that families frequent. One of the killers suggests heading ‘home’ and visiting the ‘folks’, but the other defers. The term ‘family’ is clearly being used non-literally here – one of the killers is white, and the other is Weevil from Veronica Mars. Finally they decide on a random family that must be sacrificed for the dramatic stakes to rise, and, in a happy coincidence, it’s the family that had a few lines of dialogue within the scene: That way the producers won’t have to pay a whole other set of actors! Happy coincidence, right? They head to the suburban house and whitey murders the heck out of the parents with a fireplace poker, while Weevil takes the kids upstairs to drug them to death. Weevil is not fantastic at his job, however, and the teen girl of the family survives. The team splits up – half goes to the latest crime scene, and the rest try to interview the survivor. This proves to be quite a lucky break for the team, as she’s able to describe the killers and their MO! It seems Weevil botched the murder of the teen girl because he thought she looked pretty. Also tellingly he refers to the white guy as his brother, and calls her Lucy. This is all the information necessary to figure out that they’re foster brothers, who had a foster sister named Lucy at some point! While also checking local veterinary hospitals for where Weevil might work, the team comes up with an incredibly risky plan – let the press know that the victim survived, hoping that this might draw the killers out! It works, too – Weevil sends some flowers to the hospital room – but will they be traceable? Scouring the first homicides, Reid thinks he’s figured out what caused the boys to start killing – they found a teen that had been abused like they were, and it caused Whitey to brutally murder the parents, and Weevil to put down the children so they wouldn’t have to suffer the indignities of the foster child system. Which is all well and good, as guesses go, but if the murder was random and organic, why did Weevil have the syringe full of sedative with him at the crime scene? We’ve heard nothing about MO changing, after all…(go earlier and check if they were drugged) The team gets a hit on the credit card that bought the flowers, and when they rush over to the sender’s house, hoping to find the killer, all they come across is yet another set of dead bodies, surprising absolutely no one. This murder isn’t vital to solving the crime, however, and doesn’t offer a lot of new information – luckily Garcia has grabbed a list of felons who worked around dead cats and were foster children. There are only nine of those in the whole city, and the victim is able to easily pick Weevil out of the photo lineup. While the team rushes out to catch Weevil, Emily tarries for the moment so that the victim can ask her questions important for the theme of the episode. The question: Why are the killers evil? Emily explains that it’s likely because they were abused as children. The victim responds with a sad, pointed ‘Are there any happy families?’ and Emily doesn’t have an answer for such a profound question. Although there is a simple one: yes. Oh, sure many, probably even most families are abusive to some degree, there are still plenty of happy ones out there. The victim’s family, for example, seemed perfectly happy right up until they were murdered. Oh, the victim was annoyed that her parents pressured her to succeed in school, and wouldn’t let go away for a weekend-long party, but those aren’t the kind of problems that lead someone to indict their whole family life as corrupted and toxic, are they? Hell, she could at least manage a ‘You’re asking the wrong person’ seeing as the people who devote their lives to catching serial killers would almost certainly have a dark history of informing their motives for making that decision. Or is that just TV characters? Greg and Emily swing by Weevil’s work looking for him – but he’s off, and no one knows where he lives! So they try to lure him back to the pound with a call from work. While one group lies in wait for Weevil, Greg and Emily head over to the killers’ foster mother, hoping to find out the identity of Weevil’s partner in crime, Whitey. You know, you’d think that it would be a more efficient use of time for Greg and Emily to stay at the pound, since they were already there and all, and have someone else go and visit the wicked foster mother. Did I not mention she was wicked? Oh, she really is – you can tell because her charges are afraid to look at people, and the fridge is padlocked. Despite her evilicity, she’s helpful enough to offer Whitey’s real name – ‘Gary’. You know what? I’m sticking with ‘Whitey’. Also Weevil had a sister that he was separated from, hence the not having the guts to go through with killing a young hispanic girl who slightly resembled her. Okay, now I get why they traded up who was at the pound, as little sense as that makes. Derek’s the one whose job it is to rough people up and point guns at them, and that’s what the script required. But couldn’t Derek have been the one asking the questions? Although, come to think of it, he really doesn’t do that very much… In the interview Weevil refuses to give up Whitey’s location – so they bring in the one person who he might be able to get him up – Carrie, the teen girl who he mistook for his sister! I’ve got to ask, did no one, at the script stage, notice that this episode featured a both a character named Carrie and a character named Gary? And that one scene would have Carrie asking about Gary? Because that didn’t get confusing really really fast. Weevil finds out about the massive abuse suffered at the hands of his foster mother – she loved to almost drown children! And their love of murder comes from Gary wanting to kill his foster mother! Um… duh? Greg and company run out to the foster home, and tell the mother that the only way they can protect her is if she goes back inside the house so that they can pounce on Gary when he arrives. What? Wouldn’t she be safe literally anywhere else as well? I mean, the plan is to take Gary when he shows up at the house, right? So what’s gained by the prospective victim actually being inside? By the time he finds out she’s not there he’ll already be under arrest, so there’s no reason to put the foster mother in danger. Or do they not care because she abuses children? I mean, I’d be on board with that, but I’d like at least a tacit admission that that’s the motivation behind Greg’s baffling choice. Meanwhile Gary has grabbed the two foster children and taken them to a local donut shop where they’re discovered by Reid. He sends out one of the kids with a note saying that he’ll kill the child if they they try to arrest him. Which is a scary situation and all, except for one thing. He has no ability to carry out the threat. He’s sitting directly in front of a window, unarmed, a full three feet from his ‘hostage’. And the cops have sharpshooters less than a hundred meters away- You’ve got a serial killer threatening to murder a child unless you stop him, and have a literal ‘can’t miss’ opportunity to shoot him from across the street. In this situation, there is literally no reason not to execute that man. It’s not like the note said he had a bomb that would go off if he was killed. At least then there would be some justification for caution. Here the FBI is just being ridiculous in wanting to talk to Gary. It’s Greg’s phone call that gives Gary a chance to stand and start using the kid as a human shield, ruining the snipers’ shot. Great work, Greg – you just put the kind in more danger. After talking to the kid Gary lets him out, tellingly stating that it’s ‘up to him’ whether he becomes like Gary or not. Despite this chilling statement, the team doesn’t intensively interview the kid about his experiences, or search his book bag. Gee, I wonder how that could go wrong? Back at the office Greg figures out that Gary gave himself up way too easily, but doesn’t understand the significance of it. It’s only by an amazing coincidence that Reid, eating at the donut shot, happens to overhear from the donut shop owner that Gary had a gun, that they figure out what’s going on. Before they’re able to rush in and do anything about it the kid fires off a few rounds inside the house – but he didn’t have the guts to murder his abuser, he just shot some family pictures. Yawn. Derek comforts the kid, and the show starts wrapping up. Everybody hops on the plane, acting emotionally distraught as if this was one of their toughest cases ever. Emily is especially hit, because she’d considered taking the teen girl in as a foster child if her family hadn’t shown up. A revelation that kind of came in entirely out of left field. Is her wanting kinds going to be a new character arc? I’ll keep a watchful eye for developments in that direction. Not at all. I mean, they act like Weevil’s inability to make eye contact is proof positive that he was raised in a foster home, while the fact that the two killers look nothing alike and are different races but still call each other ‘Brother’ is the much bigger clue. Other highlights of profiling in the episode include ‘not being able to interview a suspect’ and ‘failing to understand that when a guy gives up way too easily, it’s because he has a backup plan’. Even though they’ve been burned by that exact situation before frank. Totally conventional policing this week, folks. They followed a two simple clues ‘obviously unrelated dudes call each other brother’ and ‘poisoned with the stuff they use to put animals to sleep’, added an assumption that a robber is probably an ex-con, and followed it to a completely logical conclusion. One that was aided by the ability of a surviving victim to pick the killer out of a lineup. We also discovered that the team isn’t even good at basic policework – the scene at the diner was not searched, and witness statements weren’t taken at all from the children. Hell – in a situation with twenty cops and a single bystander who wasn’t either a perp or victim, how did it take them until Derek had already driven the kids home to bother getting a statement from the donut shop manager? Wow, should they have just shot Gary when they had the chance. 1/10 – This series of articles was inspired by the fact that I noticed that a show which purported to be about criminal profilers never seemed to use psychology to help them find criminals. This episode was stunning in that it barely even pretended to be about profiling. Chop roughly three lines out of the script mentioning ‘characteristic behaviour’ and this could have been an episode of literally any cop show on the air. Even NCIS, assuming that the first dead family were marines living off-base. As you’ll recall, in the second episode of this season Penelope got a science-y map from one of the more pointless sections of the federal budget! No glimpses of the map again this week, so I’ll just update the one I’m keeping track of! Here’s what it looked like last time: This week the murder was in Denver, CO, so I’ll just add a little dot there, and now we have the updated murder map! Tune in next week, to see if Penelope’s version of events jibe with mine! Yay, Weevil! Great review, as always! Robbie said... That episode reminds me how I was treated in the last foster home me and my sister were in Audrey & Bob Witters Audrey wore keys around her neck just like the women in this episode. Programme 10 (30-April-77) Criminal Minds 305: Seven Seconds Programme 9 (23-April-77) The Twenty-First-Greatest Panel in the History of ... Tales from the Darkside Episode 108 – Word Process... Tales From the Darkside Episode 107 – Inside the C... The Twentieth-Greatest Panel in the History of Com... Tales From the Darkside Episode 106 – Slippage Criminal Minds 303: Scared to Death Criminal Minds 302: In Birth and Death	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line765
__label__wiki	0.502688	0.502688	Licence Ferrari THRUSTMASTER SIGNS AS SUPPLIER PARTNER OF THE LE MANS ESPORTS SERIES! Le Mans, June 11, 2019 — Thrustmaster has confirmed it will join forces with the Le Mans Esports Series (LMES), the official esports competition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the World Endurance Championship (WEC) and Motorsport Network to make LMES more immersive and realistic than ever, with the final at the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans as the highlight. A major competition using unique Thrustmaster gear The first season of the Le Mans Esports Series will wrap up on June 14 and 15 with the Super Final. It will take place on the official premises of the famous Sarthe circuit almost at the same time as the legendary endurance race (June 15 and 16). Founded in 1992, Thrustmaster brings its know-how and technological expertise to the video game accessories market. For more than twenty five years, Thrustmaster has developed solutions to satisfy and entertain every type of gamer, by creating products for highly precise gaming experiences – such as racing wheels and joysticks – along with other accessories for gaming PC & consoles. Thrustmaster will help provide a new level of immersion and connect the real and the virtual for attendees at the WEC Season Finale. A T3PA-PRO pedal set combined with a TS-XW base and a TM Open Wheel will be a unique set-up at Le Mans, something which is not commercially available. A multi-channel support system The partnership between Thrustmaster and LMES will include the use of special gear but will also go even further: finalists will get support as they prepare for the event and fans will enjoy special content across social media. Thrustmaster’s Agnès Cornière explains: “We’re glad to be partnering with this motor racing icon. We’re brought together around this joint project through our shared vision for the future.” : Stephen Hood from Le Mans Esports Series says: “Partnering with Thrustmaster is a guarantee of excellence and reliability, words that are reflected in our project, whose aim is to see this competition grow in strength and develop over the long term." For more information on LMES, please click, cliquez ICI. Check out all of our products at www.thrustmaster.com. Thrustmaster: Facebook: @ThrustmasterOfficial & @Thrustmasteresports Instagram: @tmthrustmaster Twitter: @TMThrustmaster Le Mans Esports Series: Facebook: @lemansesports Instagram: @lemansesports Twitter: @LeMansEsports TM Open Wheel Add-on The TM Open Wheel Add-On is the detachable wheel rim derived from the renowned TS-PC Racer racing wheel.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line768
__label__cc	0.680302	0.319698	Orlando Car and Limo Service: Celebrate Universal Studios Mardi Gras in Style! In News by D S March 9, 2014 Celebrate the spirit of Mardi Gras at Universal Studios Orlando! Join the party as beads fill the air at the dazzling parade and the most amazing music and concert line up ever. Take advantage of Tiffany Towncar Specials for transportation to and from the extravaganza, with your personal Limo, Towncar or Shuttle service, you won’t have to worry about traffic, parking or drinking and driving, and you can focus on having a great time! The Music Doesn’t Stop At Mardi Gras at Universal Studio From rock, hip hop to the best pop and country, the Mardi Gras concerts offer music’s most popular artist live in concert. The exciting mix of bands and superstar singers include, Foreigner, Gavin Degraw, Weezer, Skillet, Lynyrd, Kool & The Gang and Huey Lewis and The News, just to name a few, and it all takes place on the Universal Music Plaza Stage. You can’t miss the French Quarter Courtyard with amazing live music every night with the most popular bands performing zydeco and authentic blues direct from New Orleans. While you’re there experience the world famous New Orleans Cajun Cuisine, from mouthwatering shrimp gumbo to spicy jambalaya and melt in your mouth sweet beignets. The Infamous Mardi Gras Parade This year’s theme is travel “Around the World in Eighty Days”. Over a year in the making, explores the adventure of fantasy and the classic tale of Jules Verne. Journey the globe and exotic lands through spectacular floats, towering stilt walkers, colorful costumes, dancers and entertaining street performers, while catching dazzling beads as the parade travels through the park. Contact Tiffany Towncar for the Adventure of a Lifetime!	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line770
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__label__cc	0.605527	0.394473	The Magpie Word Watch Main menu. Home The Magpie Word Watch Coming up About Donations Advertise Contact Sunday, March 3rd, 2019 \| 125 comments From ‘No Water Crisis’ To Permanent Water Restrictions? Mayor Mullet Swims Upstream The TCC has just announced revised but renewed water restrictions, without the decency of an explanation. Are they permanent? And if so, why, and will water rates be suitably reduced? Or are they just letting out water infrastructure settle down after the flood (ha!)?Another masterstroke from the council officially found to operate a ‘culture of secrecy’. Also … The ‘Pie recently indulged himself with a small rant about police representatives so often turning the narrative to the ‘trauma’ suffered by officers when they attended confronting events, and in some cases pushing the real victims into the background. Well, it would seem Bulletin iditor Jenna Cairney has taken a leaf out that playbook, giving her own staff hero status … for simply doing their jobs. Now it’s got really embarrassing. Also this week, a tiny overlooked flaw in the new stadium makes a mockery of the paper’s completely silly look into its future … And why didn’t we think of it: the Pope’s obvious insight into the sinning of Cardinal Pell. (Bentley is on a break this week.) So first … As Nana Used To Say, Self Praise Is No Recommendation. By tradition, print and online journalists have always sought the powerful but respected recognition of their work through by-lines, never unnecessarily inserting themselves into any scenario they are writing about, and generally they and their work used only to come in the public spotlight around Walkley time. Times have changed, and journalists are now players rather than observers, as perceived glamour and power infest newsroom and the minds of those undignified and egotistical enough not to know better. Jenna Cairney’s cliched gurgling about the Bulletin staff’s reporting of the floods(indeed admirable if after the fact) has taken wing on a monsoon of congratulatory self-praise, which is bound to end in a crash landing. The Bulletin’s people certainly did their work under difficult circumstances, meriting an in-house herogram. But the self-congratulation, carrying the hidden agenda of regaining public trust, is reaching a nauseating stage. But it was this excerpt from a two page AD for themselves that raised the hackles of some. Jenna Cairney’s particular take on the role of digital media is simply nonsense – amply demonstrated by an angry reader below, reinforced by the utter tripe about the the nature of the Astonisher’s FIFO staff (bye bye, Clare Armstrong, leaving so soon, after what, 12-15 months?). And one of those looking askance at that empty breast beating was a person very prominent in the fight for Townsville water security who sent this email into The Nest. She chooses to remain anonymous at this stage, obviously mindful of the albeit waning power of the paper and the propensity of News Corpse to bully people. She writes: Oh Jenna. It goes without saying that the community is sad at the now widely publicised loss of your possessions and property damage during the flood. It’s also sad that Bulletin journos (who were doing their job covering the event), came home to a stressful reality. Many people who were on duty and others who were simply volunteering that night, met with similar devastating scenes. So why the need to raise your staff’s salaried contribution above others in that two page essay? (Feb. 28th – excerpt above). The difference is, that in your role as a Newscorp editor, you can take out a free double page ad that more than hints that Bulletin staff were behaving altruistically. It’s your job and theirs Jenna, to cover local events and to report the stories. It’s what newspapers do. As for “breaking news”, sorry, the reality is that the official sources and conventional media combined, did not provide as much timely information as they could have, either in the lead-up or now beyond the inundation. The lag time is well known and the nature of alternative news sources most people turn to now. Social media was way ahead from the get-go with updates and locals were able to have real time conversations street by street. Twitter and other apps were abuzz. The online Bulletin discussion was comparatively quiet. A new FB group NQ Disaster Watch and Noticeboard was convened within hours and membership swelled to over 30,000 in a day or so. If mainstream media (MSM) like yourself were the go to source, there’d have been no need or the huge momentum that saw this community group formed. Other social media groups connected so the updates were informed, continuous, and illustrated with live footage and heartbreaking images of the unfolding event. Many of these were subsequently used by MSM. Beyond the critical hours, was the paper the first media source to warn and educate residents about the deadly likelihood of meliodosis? How about Ross River and Dengue fever? Instead, a freshwater croc up a gum tree was a major headline, so much so that it became a Newscorp icon nationally. Will the Bulletin give other local groups a free column or page to boast about their contribution? How about the army, SES, police, charity groups, volunteers from near and far, neighbours helping each other, strangers risking their lives to rescue people and pets? Further claims in your Feb. 28 essay are frankly unrelated. Helping to get funding for water infrastructure? The one-year-wonder fifo journo who first took credit for this, has moved on already, with this spurious claim on her CV. The paper always publishes the truth? Only local journos contribute? Paul Murray is local? While we’re at it … who are “real” people? This story hasn’t come across as intended Ms. Cairney. At least there were only a few grammatical errors. So take off the true blue Aussie hero cape wee Scottish lassie and stop telling the local community they are a breed apart. That label is better reserved for some prominent individuals who spruik or are spruiked about in your small scale publication. Whew, The ‘Pie will be out of a job at this rate. Jenna, the fact that you felt you had to say what you’ve said … vulgar, condescending trite waffle while at the same time desperately pleading to be loved … gives the lie to the fact that YOU KNOW the Bulletin lost any real touch with this community a long time ago, and you hoped this was an opportunity to re-establish this limping paper as part of the core of this community. Given the immediacy of your paean of praise, so soon after the crisis and is still an on-going emergency, readers (such as they are) can smell the desperation. And this embarrassing overkill in claiming some sort of achievement by your troops when they were simply doing the jobs they were trained for and are paid to do, has all but wiped out any goodwill the paper re-established through an outstanding effort of after the fact reporting one of the city’s greatest disasters. But Hey, Maybe That’s Your Idea Of A Welcome Mat Wonder who’ll be winging in for this one. Hey, maybe the mayor will name and shame you if you don’t choose a local to take the helm. Oh, wait a sec … not likely, given that the mayor who took a wet lettuce leaf to smack insurance companies who might dare to use out-of-town tradies to fix up flood damage, appeared a tad hypocritical. Apart from buying her mayoral chariot (plus shipping costs to Townsville) out of revengeful spite in Brisbane, Jenny Hill chose not to ‘buy local’ when she needed legal representation in her losing stoush against Clive Palmer’s defamation matter. Instead, this firm in Adelaide Street in Brisbane. Forked tongue doesn’t even start to describe it … especially when she uses the VIP lounge of the airline she wanted us all to boycott … Qantas. The Chatterati At Full Pelt Over Clive’s Guest List Speaking of Clive Palmer, perhaps more has been made of just who didn’t attend his so aptly titled Titanic dinner, rather than who did. Plenty of Townsville C-lister desperates rolled up, and plenty named on the table plan were no shows. The standard reply when asked why they went along from some was curiosity (fair enough) and others for the feed and free booze (even more honest). Several said the tucker was terrific. Plenty of ice buckets too, one imagines. Like everyone else, The ‘Pie trolled through the list and had a quiet chortle at a few of the freeloaders, but read nothing into it, all pretty predictable. Except one. Check out who was, apparently sitting next to our old mate, Tony Raggatt on Table 20. One Andrew Crook, who presumably (if he turned up, and can’t imagine he wouldn’t have) flew in for the event from his Gold Coast base. Now The ‘Pie wasn’t there, and it turns out Australia has Andrew Crooks surplus to requirements, including a well regarded legal eagle. But the old bird’s money betting that it was this bloke, Clive’s former media adviser. Hey Clive, if that is external lap band surgery for your tucker intake …mate, it ain’t working. Now Mr Crook is a kinda upfront guy, who for a couple of decades ran his own media company with the very upfront name Crook Media. Based, where else, on the Gold Coast. And it is Crook’s good fortune that his old boss didn’t have his Titantic knees-up off-shore, because, unless things have changed, Mr Crook‘s passport has been in the custody of the AFP wallopers for a few years now. This is why. The matter return to court on a most appropriate date , April 1, where a trail date may finally be set. Not wishing to pre-judge anything, but The ‘Pie hopes that after Mr Raggatt shook hands with his dining neighbour, he counted his fingers. When The Real News Goes Away … … and Jenny and Lil Patty are back farting rainbows for the The Astonisher to print, wonder how long before the money sinkhole called ‘our new stadium’ will be back centre stage. One would like to think that recent events might have caused some nervous reassessment of this foolhardy waste of public money. It’s the classic good news and bad news. The good is this, reported by Australian Leisure Management magazine: The Queensland Department of Housing and Public Works, leading the delivery of the new stadium, has advised that while the site was affected by some water logging as a result of the extreme rainfall event it did not experience overland flooding. The Department advised “100,000m3 of fill was used to raise the building platform above the Q100 flood level before construction commenced.” Which is as it should be, but while that is an accurate summation, it’s not good news at all for the short sighted, bull headed rush to built this white elephant. A little while ago, we got this pants-wetting dopey glop from the Astonisher. Bit late in the day to realise this snippet of the bleedin’ obvious, you’d think, especially for a council and government who both love a good old, protracted jobs-for-the-boys business study followed by a feasibility study for as a trifling matter as what to do with some dilapidated tin sheds on Flinders Street West. But in the hands of the nameless author of this inane bit of tub thumping (hi, Jenna, that you again, luvvie?) the blind idiocy reaches new heights when we read this: Sure, perhaps it should’ve been: with a population one third again as large as Dunedin, and high profile footy team like the Cowboys, Townsville would be set to match that part. But The Astonisher yarn goes on … But there may be a teensy weensy problem with the entertainment ideas when compared with the Barr Stadium. Here, see if you can spot it … here’s the Forsyth Barr (just two ‘r’s, thanks, Jenna) … Forsyth Barr stadium, Dunedin …and here’s what our new economic saviour is going to look like when finished. Spot the difference? Yes, your right, one’s GOT A BLOODY ROOF AND THE OTHER HASN’T. Bottom lime: our new stadium may be flood proof, but it certainly isn’t rain proof for any entertainment ambitions. And entertainment business is risky enough, don’t think that won’t be noticed. Once again, the vision of Mr Magoo infests our planning leadership. Speaking Of Which, Two Questions … Have a look at this, then contemplate two questions: If the staff at the counter in Walker Street can tell you what you want to know if you visited the Flinders Street office, why do we have extra staff to do that in a rented CBD premises (when its open)? Why open an office in this location anyway, the sadly true dead heart of Townsville, where there are bugger all people wandering about? Why not at say The Willows, Stockland, or Castletown? Or have they done that, lots of votes out that way, y’know? This wouldn’t an abortive attempt yet again for Mayor Mullet to use public money for her electoral campaigning? Nah, she wouldn’t do that. Would she? And Seems Another Magpie Prediction Is True On more than one occasion, The ’Pie has suggested we need to change our approach to water usage in Townsville, and has been waiting for the well reasoned debate on the issue. Fat chance. That’s not the way they do things down in the Hermit Kingdom in Walker Street. It is ‘rule by fiat’ and stop whingeing and wanting a say in these matters, peasants. With the amount of water around at the moment, this TCC ad in the Astonisher yesterday – phrased to make it sound like happy days are here again – is apparently Mayor Mullet’s way of announcing water restrictions are here to stay. This may indeed be a sensible and prudent forward looking move, but questions remain dangling … in the face of the inundation that has just sucker-punched our city, isn’t the almost comical announcement worthy of an explanation? But more importantly, will we keep paying for water we can’t use? Will water rates be reduced? Wouldn’t like to be in a dark room with George Pell waiting for an answer to that one. Speaking Of His Un-Eminence, In Defence Of George Pell, By The Pope The simplest undeniable defence that the kiddy-fiddling cardinal could have used came too late for him. No less than the Pope had the excuse for Pell’s abominable actions a few days ago in Rome … Pell is, according to the Pontiff, a victim in all this. This from comments during the week. February 27, 2019 at 12:32 am (Edit) Can you believe it? The best the Pope can do is say child abuse was Satan’s doing … in other words, THE DEVIL MADE HIM DO IT!!! There was a time when that would’ve been a few hail marys and off to another parish to prey on. Perhaps that has changed now, but not a skerrick of real responsibility, just the old fairytales that have always worked before. They have either learnt nothing, or will continue to trust their evil style of infrastructure that invites – nay, virtually guarantees – abuses, and not just sexual ones, but emotional ones as well. The devil is indeed involved, but he’s not at the gates, he’s got the keys to the city. Vatican City, it would seem. (And all other religions, bar none). But for all that, The ‘Pie totally agrees with one conclusion of the Vatican meeting of the boys in their pretty dresses and helicopter caps … they said something concrete must be done about the child abuse by the predatory priests. Too right it must, and allow The ‘Pie to suggest that this would be a the most effective CONCRETE idea … … these should applied with great force to the offending anatomy to ALL paedophiles … but make sure you keep your thumbs clear. It’s A Week Of Questions, So Here’s Another from Comments Well it is a hot air event, Canberra’s annual festival of Balloons. But there was a disgraceful excess of it before any flight lifted off. So here’s the question: How is this OK for public consumption, kiddies and adults alike … … but this is not? Answer: Because some disturbed PC drop kick judged that it looked like a golliwog, and thus had it banned from entering the event. But what if it does look like a ‘golliwog’ to some (it nowhere near does, anyway)… maybe to black people, it might make them feel included? Did anyone ask? And the swerve in eligibility is a bit late in the day, as this completely unremarked appearance in 2011 attests. Think we need another pair of bricks. When The Book Is Written, It Will Be Called ‘Trump And Consequences’ This week’s gallery from the world according to Trump, who it would appear, has met his match. And Finally, Is Theresa May’s Brexit Rocket Finally About To Blast Off? The world has survived another week, so look back and start working up your outrage and have a thunder in the comments, which run 24/7. As you know, this load of old cobblers is a labour of love (for Townsville) by The ‘Pie, and it will always be free, but if you can help defray blog costs and the estimated five days it takes to put this weekly missive together, a donation is always appreciated and most helpful. The how-to-donate button is below. The Magpie's Nest is now more than five years old, and remains an independent alternative voice for Townsville. The weekly warble is a labour of love and takes a lot of time to put together. So if you like your weekly load of old cobblers, you can help keep it aloft with a donation, or even a regular voluntary subscription. Paypal is at the ready, it's as easy as ... well, easy as pie. Limited advertising space is also available. Secured by PayPal Spooka says: Catholic Church? A global conglomerate of Social Engineers?, Crowd controllers? Big, Big Business? Evil, Evil history? Paedophile sanctuary? we could go on and on but really just an evil organization as is most religion is. A God? pigs arse there is. Achilles says: During the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines the head of the Catholic Church went by the unfortunate name of Cardinal Sin. Australia has now topped that by convicting its Cardinal for committing a cardinal sin. The Magpie says: The ‘Pie has been waiting for that one. If Pell gets a long spell in chokey, it’ll be a long time no See. One of Sir Humphrey’s best gags in Yes Minister. Miss Lou says: Will you apply for the position as GM? Always good, Always entertaing. Miss Lou. If The ‘Pie gets the gig, will you be his secretary, willing to take down your notes for him, to …ummm … drop everything when he calls? Would you two get a room You betcha, no arguments from The ‘Pie’s side. Willy wonka says: Is there a hold up in the state government with the Inquiry into the water realease from the dam? It’s all gone very quiet. Just asking if there’s been any more talk. Mike Douglas says: Nearly one month after the floods and where’s the transparency from T.C.C. and the Mullet on estimated costs in repairing the city ?. T.C.C. must have a $ estimate as the Mullet did her tour of Canberra with her begging bowl. From past experience the Mullet cannot multiskill abd has pissed off so many of the major investors in Townsville Parkside Group ,Lancini , Qantas the list goes on so we need a plan . Alternatively we need to know, based on T.C.C.,s precarious financial position how the rebuild will be funded . Old tradesman says: Why is it that two properties still haven’t given permission to let the pipe line go through? I would have thought this would have been sorted out prior to starting the project. Headlong rush for votes. Grumpy says: OT, that was my first reaction when I read the story. Fucking idiots. Don’t they realise that you sign the pre~nup before you buy the wedding dress? The (Mostly) Civil Engineer says: You might want to ask the two legal “eagles” (using the term very loosely) managing it for TCC – the evil Connie Navarro from Enema-Mate and the inept in-house counsel Graeme Finlayson – what went wrong. I am told they are attempting to steamroll two cattle property owners by claiming that the bush is just the bush and therefore worthless. But at least two owners are pushing back and have engaged their own legal team. That brings up an interesting. Navarro, who had a lot to do with the Bluewater shennigans including the intimidation of the neighbour bof the Navarro family property, grazier Sandra Richards, has learnt a thing or two from her boss, Bazza The Legal Foghorn Taylor. Story that in the late eighties early nineties, Bazza was on the bare bones of his arse, and then suddenly weasled his way into a gig acting for multiple landholders out west where land was being resumed for a rail line. Bazza made a motza, gouging his clients (he wanted a million of one grazier, who gave an earthy two word answer involving sex and travel … Baz had to settle for the lot less.) The Magpie was put in mind of that little tale because clearly acting for clients in this scenario is something in which The Foghorn has some experience. Sooooo … it will be interesting to see if Enema Legal tries for representation of the hold-out landholders … massive conflict of interest if Navarro is advising the council. Might not be, might be council legal attack dog Tony Bligh. Hmmm, one wonders … worth watching. Droopy draws says: Scary thing is Pie, they’re trying to dip their grubby fingers into those handling the the $180M irrigation scheme out west too… Word is the landowners have engaged a reputable firm of Burdekin lawyers to represent them. Without knowing which landowners are involved, the sorts of people in that area are the Cox’s (of David and Sam fame – old-school Burdekin cane mafia), Meehan’s (iconic local cattle family and known to be good blokes), McCahills (civil contractors and landscaping) and Turners’ (of Turner’s Transport and Bushland Beach development) along with some names which weren’t so recognisable to anyone with history in this town. None of these families are people to take on lightly or thoughtlessly. Might be worth getting some popcorn and a choc-top as this will be fun to watch. Plannit Townsville says: Think you are getting a little excited there… January council minutes… “Consultation, negotiations and land access and easement agreements have been executed with three private land owners, Cox (Ch. 840m to 2600m), Ievers (Ch. 6400m to 10,700m) and Lyons (Ch. 12,750m to 17,400m) and negotiations remain unresolved with two private land owners, Owens /Turner (Ch. 2900m to 6400m) and Meehan (Ch. 10,700m to 12,750m)” Maybe but if MCE didn’t know, spot on speculation. Kingswood says: Hope there’s no bloody finches that live in that bush…… Non Aligned Worker says: Might explain why they have only awarded two of the four installation packages. Of the 36 km of stage 1 only 18 km has been awarded. Guessing it will be pretty hard to have it all done by the end of this year. The Wulguru Wonder says: The story in the Astonisher says the completion date has been pushed back to March 2020….”due to the unprecedented flooding”….. Also interesting that the supposedly confidential TCC report that this comes from is quoted and acknowledged as being seen by the Astonisher. I wonder just how ‘confidential’ the report really is. More likely some selective leaking by our new ‘Council spokesman’. As George Orwell pointed out years ago, ‘some are more equal than others’. Unprecedented flood of empty political promises I suspect. Ferret says: Which is why a spokesman for the council said the time was extended until march 2020 Steve, Belgian Gardens says: That balloon does look just like a golliwog, right down to the little bow tie. The fact that the owners call it “Golly” is a bit of a giveaway, too. Prejudice is in the eye of the beholder, Steve. I’ll be plucked says: Yes Pie, it is. Does that mean that little girls who have black dolls are racist too? I think not, but……… Indeed … but tell you what, the greatest unacknowledged racism is the word ‘black’, followed closely the more catch-all favourite of the ‘offended outrage’ industry ‘person of colour’. Has it not occurred to anyone that say an Australian aborigine has no more in common – perhaps less – with say, a Sudanese, a Nigerian or a Kenyan than the colour of their skin. All have suffered under colonial rule to varying degrees (many have also benefited, too) but trying to calm undercurrents of racism with bromides about widely shared but differing types of historical oppression serves only the promoters of victimhood. Want to see racism in its rawest, base form? Check out how aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders feel about each other. And if you feel it’s worth your time, study the bedrock of racism of the aboriginal community among themselves … not to be caught out, many refer to often violent disagreements, bullying and overbearing behaviour as differences between ‘families’ … it is, in fact, what we are no longer supposed to describe as ‘tribalism’ … and tribes, which initially formed for self-protection and survival, are the very birthplace of racism, which has existed ever since Og came over the hill and stole Urka away from Grok and dragged her back home by the hair. (Only included that last bit so that other pillar of the outrage industry, proto-feminists didn’t feel locked out of such an opportunity for a spittle-flecked rant. You go, girl.) Water Water Everywhere says: Just a quick note in regards to watering (the way I seem to understand this announcement anyway) 5pm to 8am – three times a week – 45 hours of watering Taking the minimum service level as promised by TCC Customer Service Standards document as gospel (good laugh I know), we can use 30 Litres per minute. That would get us 81 kL per week, so if your heart desires, feel free to now use more than 5 times the allocation without breaching restrictions – just be prepared to pay near on $10k in excess. Regardless that your 300m2 lawn won’t need more than 9 kL per week to be a nice soft bowling green. And I am not following your logic why water rates should be reduced, does a full dam somehow mean lower treatment and pumping costs? Two things: the lack of a reasoned explanation was the main grouch, as it so often is with this council and 2; The ‘Pie is always happy to be corrected but he was under the impression that those who pay water rates do so for a prescribed amount, which previous restrictions did not allow householders to access, with no reduction in cost. By what you’re saying – and no reason not to accept your analysis – water users can now acess their full quota without penalty. But the fact remains that this is not a public discussion between the council and the community, and while ever some sort of restrictions remain, the door is open to bring in stricter controls as a general policy without discussion nor consultation, rather than force of circumstance. The CEO sets the restriction levels on advice from the manager of Townsville Water and Waste. That is taken to a full meeting of council and the recommendation is voted on. This was how they introduced the harsher restrictions back on 25th August 2015. They did not notify the public until the November issue of city news that used to be delivered in the junk mail When there was good news in February last year it was announced publicly straight away that restrictions would be lifted from level 3 to a modified level 2 this took effect on 17th March 2018 Linda Ashton says: Aha. Squirrel strikes again. Bird please bear with me. Mark Harvey says: Ferret, I was the author of the August 2015 restriction policy. It was in a public notice in the paper(as required by law), on Tv news and on the Council website within days of it being adopted. There was then significantly more PR before any fines were handed out. I will post a full comment about the new “restrictions” in the next few days- but to sum up my current opinion, they are not actually a restriction, they are what should have happened in April last year, and the wording used by Council to describe them to date is either very poor or deliberately deceptive. I want to check the wording in the Council meeting minutes before commenting further. Thanks, Mark, that will be very instructive. The ‘Pie takes this opportunity to emphasise that his comments in the blog were not about the restriction per se, but the continued ‘culture of secrecy’ in which this council perversely insists on operating, despite an official rap over the knuckles last year. I wish TCC and the Astonisher were more consistent in their use of language and definition of terms. In the Astonisher today we have Mayor Hill quoted as saying the monsoonal event last month inundated more than 3300 homes. Yet on 21 February the Astonisher quoted Deputy Mayor Walker as saying the final figures from damage assessments carried out by QFES identified almost 3300 properties with damage. Which is it? More than 3300 or almost 3300? And is it or homes or properties? (For example, as pointed out in the blog comments last week, is a 4 unit complex counted as one property or 4 homes?) And with the greatest respect to you, Wonder, why do you need to know this? Personally, simply to get a consistent and more informed understanding of the extent of the impact on my community, Plucker. But I am also interested as a matter of principle. Precision and consistancy in language usage and definition is important for accoutability and transparancy. The funding and policy decisions made by our elected representatives and public and private bodies are based on and justified by reference to facts, figures and conclusions made in reports and statements like this. I can be somewhat of a pedant on these things, but I do think it is important. Thank you for taking the time to explain Wonder; I doubt you will get the information you want, however there’s no harm in asking! The other distinction is “damage” as against “inundation”. Inundation in this context means “flooding” as in water rising. “Damage” might be from all sorts of things – roof damage, flood damage, electrical damage, mould damage, the list goes on. Probably it would be expected that there would be many more homes damaged than were actually flooded. Cantankerous but happy says: Or the other sort of inundation, when you realise you don’t have flood insurance and your house is going to go under so you get up on the roof with a hammer and crack a few tiles. Critical says: You can bet that TCC will submit an overestimated claim to the Commonwealth and State governments for damages to the city as it will almost certainly include the cost for works that should have been already been undertaken or be scheduled to be undertaken by TCC e.g. the repairs and resealing of streets such as Watson St, Kelly St, WelshSt to mention a few that are now fallen apart and I’m certain that other infrastructure will be included. But then if Mullet gets the money, you can be certain that in her desperate propaganda to get herself back into power next March she will quote the amount that her council has spent on capital works, kms of streets resealed etc. but conveniently forget to say that the works were part of disaster recovery funding. Private Cupcake (‘state member’ for Townsville) 7 local news this evening re meat works job losses due to flooding cattle losses- ‘we will do all that we can………’ – WHAT EXACTLY??? Further, youth unemployment update in Townsville is nearly 18%, Private Cupcake ‘we are doing all we can………’ – it’s not enough and appears to be not working! Probably time to hand in the badge Private………it would seem you’ve got nothing! Plucker he’s going to stand behind another more important politician, wring his hands and nod his head. Because frankly, that’s all he has done to date, and all he is capable of doing. Well Plannit, I hope he is going back to whatever he did before taking the seat of Townsville – he’s had a chance over two terms and done zip for us. Don’t know the bloke but surely he can see/acknowledge this and withdraw gracefully? Bring on some strong and independent of political party strings types to line up for the next state election (or if party aligned they can actually DO SOMETHING for our beleaguered community and tell us what and how before we vote)! Am I still dreaming Pie? There has to be someone……… Peewee Herman says: There’s the old Bully classic word COULD in today’s lede. “A CONCEPT plan that would see Townsville icon Castle Hill have permanent ziplines, cafes, and an annual light show could be closer to reality after a funding splash by the Federal Government.” No mention of improving the road/walking path so that the fine line taken between cars, cyclists and walkers is safer. Can you imagine what it would be like if they actually did (hahaha) put a zipline and cafe in at the top of the hill but left the road as it is. I’d be betting on a pedestrian v car fatality within the first few months. The way it reads to me is that the concept plan itself could be closer to becoming a reality, that is, the concept plan could be closer to being a finalised finished document. I’m sure that’s not what they mean….but you never know with the Astonisher. We live and learn, as The ‘Pie has done through his love of words and language since he left school at age 13 … he tut-tutted at what he thought was a misspelling of lead in the above comment. But as his ingrained habit of self-instruction dictated, he checked … and ‘lede’ is correct, if you are willing to accept the American spelling – which at least means ‘lede’ is not a spelling error, although cultural pedants may roll a monocled eye (wish ain’t easy when you think about it.) The Magpie is always happy when serendipity strikes. lede \| lēd \| (also lead) noun US the opening sentence or paragraph of a news article, summarizing the most important aspects of the story: the lede has been rewritten and the headline changed. Mike Shearer says: Doesn’t anyone consider earlier ideas for despoiling Castle Hill? Consider for example the octagon, the proposal for a cable car, a block of multi-storey units. What’s wrong with such? 1. any man-made structure makes the natural environment look smaller – think of Mt Stuart without the towers; 2. the fire brigade wasn’t happy about habitations on the hill; there isn’t the population to support a cable car or ziplines; alcohol proved a no-no at the top of the hill, because of the drive back down again. OK, so make the road wider and straighter, keep the emergency people happy, and inebriated drivers safer. But then objection 1 above applies. “Iconic” crocodile? Page 7 of today’s papers has a story with the headline “Iconic saltie feared killed” that starts “THERE are fears an iconic North Queensland saltwater crocodile has been shot and killed.” It then goes on to quote a police officer “Sgt Gillinder said police were yet to determine if the 4.5m crocodile had been shot, died of natural causes or been killed by a rival.” Okay, so it’s 4.5m long, we’ve established that quite easily thanks to the police who have also got no idea how it died. THEN we have this ripper par – “It is an offence under the Nature Conservation Act 1992 to take an estuarine crocodile without authority and there are greater penalties in place for the unlawful take of an ‘iconic’ crocodile, defined as 5m or greater in length. The maximum penalty for the unlawful take of an iconic crocodile is $28,383.75.” So hang on, we’ve got a 4.5m dead croc which clearly isn’t iconic (because it’s not 5m or longer), we don’t know how it died but we are subjected to more moronic garbage from the Astonisher who don’t seem to have a single clue even when it’s spelled out in THEIR OWN STORY! You sound surprised, Little Dick. Why? And don’t the old bird started on the ‘iconic’ stupidity of this vapid publication – in terms of English, it is fair to say that the incorrect parroting use of ‘iconic’ in the Bulletin is iconic of the paper. icon \| ˈīˌkän \| a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something: Dave of Kelso says: Oh, but the Astonisher is a representative symbol of something; all that is vacuous and shallow. Pie, Pleease do not start me again on the word “iconic”. It unsettles me for weeks. I still think an icon is a small religious painting, nothing more, nothing less. Stuff the modern usage. Hey an APB for all readers: The ‘Pie has been told that Mayor Mullet was on radio this morning, bagging ‘that small percentage of people who will never be satisfied’ and ikndirectly aiming yet another dart at the Magpie. Anyone hear it? Where? Copy? No but, you and we are clearly getting under her skin. Time to revive the Magpie bumper sticker idea. (Prefer window suction cap sign myself.) The Magpie with magnifying glass and Mullet in red dress and axe. I am sure many Nesters would participate. Seeing these around town would further annoy the Mullet, especially with the election coming up. A spin-off would be Nesters meeting other Nesters with the greeting, “Who are you?” Dave (Davo?), You are really a nasty piece of work. Put me down for 3 stickers. All that’s been bubbling away in the murk of the Magpie mind, but let’s see who grows a pair and declares ‘step outside’ to the Mullet before we get carried away. Sure to be a lot of stalking horse candidates infesting the place, and possibly a few ratbags, so we need to sort all that out before start having a bit of fun. Who am I Kelso? I’m Plucker, you’re not!! Dearie Me says: I do wonder how the Mullet knows it’s only a small percentage of people who are unsatisfied… She does a lot of talking at people and not a lot of talking to people. That minor detail makes difference. And if you only listen to your “Yes Men” you’ll only hear what you want to hear. I’m guessing the big community survey in March 2020 will tell her what percentage are unsatisfied. She needs someone to continually whisper in her ear, “Memento Mori, sweetheart.” YOUR FLOOD INFO Members of the volunteer Water For Townsville Advocacy Group sincerely hope everyone is coping as well as can be expected, given the extent of the flood damage and individual trauma. It’s wonderful to hear the stories of community spirit, volunteer kindness and resilience in the face of this event. The technical team in WFTAG are collecting information for their research into the event. They already have substantial quantitative data from BOM and other rainfall recording sources. They would like residents directly impacted to have the opportunity to provide more specific information. If you wish to participate click on this link. https://www.facebook.com/599463704/posts/10156539048418705?sfns=mo Add your responses to the questions 1-7 in comments. No names will be used in the report. The tech report and recommendations will be submitted to the relevant authorities looking into existing policy and process, and to the public. We are a large non-partisan online community group and many of our members were also directly impacted. Please share to friends who may be interested. https://m.facebook.com/groups/1848054865416507?ref=share So Numbskull Gill has decided to borrow $50million from the NAÏF to fund the airport upgrade, exactly what most of us thought they should have done in the first place. This is a great result for the people of Townsville who won’t have to pay a levy, and a great result for people power who stayed solid that we shouldn’t line their pockets to fund their own asset, let’s hope everyone stays that solid when it comes to getting rid of the Mullet next year. You are sadly misguided, Cankers, if you think ‘ the people of Townsville won’t have to pay a levy'; the avaricious QAL will continue to pursue a ticket tax over the remaining $30m, or just simply charge airlines extra to use upgraded facilities, for which they paid not a penny. And when they force the airlines to do that, what do you think will happen to ticket prices? And leave Gill outvof this one … you don’t don’t send the office boy to negotiate with the federal government. The Real Philip Batty says: Not that I mind as it is a loan but the loan can only be provided if there is a public benefit. I fail to see how the airport upgrade fits the criteria. seagull says: it’s the taxpayer to the rescue …. god bless you all for supporting Gill & his dream “Airport redevelopment to takeoff with $50M loan Townsville’s timeworn airport is about to get a major facelift after securing a loan from the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility. ” this not being the “facility’s” proper purpose, one suspects it as a bit of sideways pork barrelling, if not desperation to get some funds out there … add another 2m for the castle hill “master plan” … if you have a medical condition then watch out for the next Herbert sugar hit ! Wrong, this is exactly the NAÏF purpose, to help produce projects that don’t stack up financially, do not stand up the the normal lending requirements for a commercial bank, and would not proceed without the govt guaranteed loan. The project itself represents about 2-3 years of trading income and about 10-15 years of gross profit for TAPL, it’s parent company QAL is already financially stretched with its own $350 million project on the Gold Coast, so a low interest or deferred payment facility allows the project to proceed. Cairns airport was looking to fund its expansion under the NAÏF also when it was owned by Auckland airports, exactly the same principle applies. We may well think the project isn’t required, but that is irrelevant, and now the project will proceed. What I am waiting to see is who gets the keys to a new upstairs lounge first, my money is on Virgin. The ‘Pie is happy to see a few more bells and whistles as such for our incoming and outgoing flyers, but consider this: a ticket tax is eventually agreed, or airline usage airport usage charges go up, in order for QAL to recoup the money and pay back the loan, which, if you consider interest etc, means that the public is paying one way or another in the end – twice in fact – to enrich a private company, for virtually no gain at all for the local or broader community. Attract tourists to ‘experience’ Castle Hill? What planet are these people from, Planet Ritalin? here is NAIF’s own take on the public benefit of airport projects : Public benefit: •Enhanced freight facilities (chillers improving ability to air freight agricultural products) •Improving storage capacity for produce in transit •Better utilization of runways to service increased passenger numbers •Supports agriculture, tourism and service sector a new “lounge” & more shops fall short of this IMHO Even the stated aims are mostly codswallop anyway. I agree its a complete toss, but it is a loan, and it does need to be repaid. I have said in the past the problem with Townsville airport is that it’s a pissy business owned by another pissy business, it just doesn’t ave the scale to leverage an outcome. I would imagine Qantas will still resist any increases over and above the $1 it agreed to a few years ago, be interesting to see if Virgin are still happy to stump up the $3, or if they are reconsidering their position. This should take the sting out of the loony left tree huggers “Australian scientists turn CO2 gas back into solid carbon i.e. coal https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2019/feb/carbon-dioxide-coal Westie says: What a wonderful example of Aussie ingenuity? Who needs coal mines- we will make our own coal. Burn coal into carbon dioxide, turn it back into coal with the new process, burn it again, etc etc. Free electricity forever. Now we can tell Adani and the other greedy coal miners to sod off, and we can stop building ugly wind turbines- the tree huggers and the climate change deniers alike will be ecstatic…… I’m not missing anything, am I? Missing anything Westie? Check your shorts mate. Frequent flyer says: Interesting to see that part of the Townsville Airport redevelopment will be “an expansion and upgrade of the airport’s apron to provide more aircraft parking”. Townsville Airport got a $10 million grant from the State Government a couple of years ago to do this? At that time they put in an additional 18,000 square metres of aircraft parking so was the job done so badly it needs to be done again just two years later?. Perhaps Mr Gill can explain. No The ‘Pie thinks it is probably the Astonisher which needs to explain what would appear to be a further example of sloppy close-enough-is-good-enough reporting. But if Minister Canavan said this, then two things are possible, he was badly briefed or the $10m ALREADY SPENT is included in the $50m, making $40m left for what would now be a $70m outstanding project. So QAL still come up $30m short, and have no reason to gouge the public for that, since they are on record saying they would be happy (big of them!) to contribute $40m to the upgrade but wanted a ticket tax to cover the remainder. Whatever, the apron work is long finished, which the Astonisher could’ve checked as easily did The ‘Pie. https://infrastructuremagazine.com.au/2018/05/11/townsville-airport-apron-upgrade-complete/ Leslie Jogger says: $10 m already spent (state money). Naif is for the terminal. That was The ‘Pie’s point – the paper sated that the NAIF money included money for the apron upgrade. maybe the NAIF deal returns the money QAL have already spent. Been waiting for the Astonisher to fix the typo on p3. “Bulkcoal to face count”. Hope the count doesn’t have them flogged. How did that stray ‘o’ get in there? That would be The Story of O. That’s got a familiar ring to it. Oh I get it Often? Naah As one TCC unicorn brain-fart pie in the sky idea bursts onto the scene, another one slowly fades away. Heard anything about the Strand crystal lagoon recently? According to the Astonisher (Dec 2017) this “idyllic lagoon that’s set to transform The Strand and draw thousands of tourists to Townsville is expected to be built by 2020.” To quote Mayor Hill in the same article “But I want it a long way into its development before that” Tick tick, tick tock, 2020 ain’t that far away….. HEY SPORT, watch that ‘pie in the sky’ stuff … might cry. Wasn’t that just another concept plan? Or was it a vision? Or a road map? Or maybe it was an initiative? Perhaps it was a Future City. To be honest I’m getting confused. But you have to give the brains trust at Council full marks for finding ever more inventive ways to piss away ratepayer money and deliver nothing concrete (or watery in this case) Tick Tock says: Any more news on the battery plant that was going to be built ? About as much news on that as there is on the mirage of the Strand lagoon, which The ‘Pie has now been informed is a ‘dead duck’. More in Sat blog. Is the bus hub operational? Give Les Walker a ring … oh, hang on … oh, well, you can always leave a question on his messagebank. no its not … they are resurfacing that part of Ogden St @ the mo … there is a large “awning ” out the back of the old sports store (I suppose) that needs cladding as well … must be getting close to being up & running … looks like finishing the sports store / connection to Flinders St will be “stage 2″ Chicken Little says: You’d think that battery plant would be full steam ahead since the RSPCA stomped out of town. Clocking Is that the battery chicken farm? Or something else. According to today’s Astonisher, Chris Mills QAL ‘s Chief Executive has confirmed that “$20 million had already been spent upgrading the airport’s apron parking” So the figure has jumped from $10M to $20M overnight? That’s nothing for Queensland (Townsville) Airports. When they announced this redevelopment it was going to cost $40 million. Then suddenly about 18 months ago that became $80 million. Wouldn’t have anything to do with the percentage of the total cost they were allowed to borrow from NAIF would it? QAL are probably using the additional $10M to pay back the interest free $9M loan that got from the Qld Govt in 2017 for the apon works….and still have a spare million or two left over. FF you have to understand its about the “vibe” not the facts. The Stockman says: Roll up, roll up. Get your tickets to the underwater art museum, coming to a Townsville flood plain near you in the next few years as global warming really starts to mess up our atmosphere. Those semi tidal pieces will be everywhere by 2030… perhaps a giant statue of Guutam Adani would look good on the strand? Harpoon Hillbilly says: Simpo Templeton the latest Council employee to go on leave. Looking for a new job? Rumour has it he was booted from the townsville disaster management centre during the floods when tensions ran high. Any insight pie? Nope, news to the old bird. Axiomatic says: I can confirm that he has been on leave all week. Confirmed by council and media sources he was booted from the TDLMG for being a hot head. Pissed off southern media apparently… NQGal says: Astonishing that all the “Women of Inspiration” in today’s Astonisher, were from companies who also had ads in the liftout. The Astonisher has a feature today titled “International Women’s Day” where they “salute the women of Townsville who inspire the people of this city with their achievements, hard work and dedication to others”. They have chosen twelve women. Of those twelve women eight of them work for the Townsville City Council and mysteriously in the middle of the feature is a full page ad for the Townsville City Council promoting their diversity. The other four women are from Queensland Country Credit Union (an ad for QCCU directly under her profile), two women from Pickerings Volkswagen (ads for Pickerings Volkswagen directly under both their profiles)… … and finally the Stuart Hotel (1/2 page ad promoting the weekly specials under her profile). Now, the last thing I am doing is trying to take anything away from these 12 women, I just think it’s a plain old advertorial dressed up as the Bully’s attempt to pull the wool over our eyes. News Corpse cynicism and opportunism at its far from altruistic best!! And did you notice anything else? … like you, not to denigrate these women in any way, good on them for having their jobs, but not a single one of them is an employer or business person in their own right. Where is Carolyn McManus, or Debbie Rains, or regional grazier (plenty of women handle that role) and The ‘Pie seems to remember that a couple of local heavy industry firms have women at the helm or in ownership. Well, at least no one from Adani was featured with an accompanying ad. Perhaps many firms and organisations were approached who saw through the advertising flim-flammery and told the paper to FO. So the tcc part is advertising, as it reads we are hiring. Is there a 50% quota? Maybe we have lost more experienced people in the council again. I fail to see how Jane arlett didn’t get a mention over the last couple of years on this women’s day after being business person of the year twice. That’s right she was bullshitting us with the second pipeline. When is it international men’s day? Or violence against men day? The gals suggest that there are 364 mens day every year … suits The ‘Pie. Of the TCC women the one worth the most respect is the lady in the advert .. Anna Whelan. And what does Anna do in the council? She looks like she is a one word job description worker unlike the other’s if anyone else saw that. There job titles are very broad if that’s what is on there business cards for tcc. Anna looks like she isn’t afraid of work as she had an outdoor uniform on. Am I allowed to say she’s a pretty good looking sort or is that going to get me in trouble with the #metoo movement? She should be the council spokesperson instead of the talking fish when things are good. I’d listen to her. Sounds like you need a dash of bromide in your tea … always worked in the army. Wonka… she’s an Engineer mate and does the important job of looking after all our Wastewater Treatment Plants. Let’s give that a bit of respect. Ummm … let’s give ‘em all a bit of respect. The Magpie is mainly interested in nailing errant ELECTED officials and those they shoehorn into featherbedded jobs for the boys and girls, along with those who weasle their way into influential positions to further their private interests. (Airport, anyone?) And that class of folk get respect only when they earn it, one reason you don’t see too much respect in this neck of the woods. Cappuccino_in_hand says: My therapist told me my Chloephobia will be cured if I don’t read the local rag. She was correct. Am back reading the sport section in Saturday’s Australian. Looking to add the Business section after a couple more visits. Just glimpsing posts like this bring my phobia back on big time! Private Cupcake (State ALP ‘member’ for Townsville) on 7 local news tonight saying the state LNP have no plan and they are out of touch………pluck me, this bloke has gone way past ‘bad to worse’ and has hit rock bottom and is now digging a big hole for himself! His govt and his ‘leadership’ over nearly two terms has resulted in out of control crime and violence, record adult and youth unemployment, property values plunging, population drift, business closures and the list goes on and on……..! Hey Private, you are an embarrassment as a local politician/member, you peddle crap and talk rubbish continually. Stand aside you lemon! One may assume, then, that you will not be voting for him? Will you??? Given the recent ethics of the major political parties, it is the Sex Party for me. If they win the seat I look very much to the celebration party. All the best at the party Kelso; hope you score that elusive hole in one. I have always been a supporter of the new stadium, properly run by people who can attract other events, concerts, soccer , rugby etc, it can be something many can use and be an asset to the city, but this Cowboys centre of excellence should be totally funded by the club, it’s sponsors, supporters, whoever they can find to stump up the cash, but taxpayers funds should not be spent on this at all, there is zero benefit to the community of this facility, 99% of the people in this town will never step foot in the joint, I hope both sides of politics tell the Cowboys to piss off and fund it themselves. With all the impressive artists impressions of the new North Queensland Stadium I’m yet to see a single image from the Cowboys, the developer, the architect or any form of government showing what car parking will be available. Will it just be the handful of existing parks out the front of the stadium for players/officials etc along with the Dean St council car park? (There are currently approximately 2500 car parks at 1300 Smiles Stadium with a lot of additional parking at nearby clubs and shopping centres.) Thankfully we’ll have our awesome public transport system to whisk us from ‘somewhere’ to the stadium. That’s because there are no plans. It will be a complete shambles. Bring some sturdy walking shoes and a dose of patience if you bother attending. Or, like the rest of us, stay home and watch on tv. The Water Supply (S&R) Act is the head of power for TCC to apply a water restriction. S41 details that the only time a restriction can be applied is: Urgent need (ie something broke); if the available water supply has fallen to such a level that unrestricted use is not in the best public interest (40% in RRD in the current policy); or if the restriction is an essential part of a comprehensive demand management strategy. This is why the 2015 restriction policy did away with the old permanent Level 1 restriction – it was illegal. The intention at the time was that when restrictions were lifted we would go to Permanent Water Saving Measures – simple non-mandatory ways of saving water: do not water during the heat of the day and you do not need to water more than 3 times per week. Following odds and evens is sensible – if everyone waters on the same day you get a drop in water pressure, and it gives the system operators a low demand Monday during which major works are conducted. So now the dam is full and we have Water Conservation Measures – which according to the Council resolution are interim until the 3 point plan is implemented. Apparently good practice has an end date! The resolution makes no reference to restrictions at all. The summary does however state that the measures “allow” watering over 3 days on odds and evens. It is reasonable to assume that they do not allow watering at other times, and therefore constitute a restriction. This is also supported by the language in the promotional material, which would lead the average resident to believe that these are in fact a restriction. By the wording of the resolution, I do not believe that this was intended to be a legitimate restriction under the Act. I am sure it could be legally argued however that the language makes it a restriction even if it is not badged as one, and it could therefore be alleged that it is an illegal restriction. Post a Comment to Achilles The Magpie encourages all to take part in the discussion and let their voice be heard. In order to post a comment, you must provide a name. While you don't have to use your real name, it should be something unique so users can identify you in the discussion. Generic names like “Anonymous” will likely result in your comment being ignored. Let the discussion begin! Countdown until the next council election: 255Days 20 45 32 More from The Magpie That $350,000 Deal With Jamie Durie: The Simmering Rage Grows Across The City Ironywoman!!! In Three Short Years, Jenny Hill Has Gone From ‘No Water Crisis’ To ‘ We’ll All Be Rooned If We Don’t Get A Second Pipeline’ . The Bulletin Says Jenny Hill Could Be Re-Elected Unopposed. That Would Be Like Voters Saying ‘These Prawns Taste Funny’ – But You Keep Eating Them Anyway. View The Magpie archives » Automatically receive your Magpie every Saturday, plus comments during the week. © 2019 The Magpie's Nest \| Privacy & Legal information 6485 About \| Advertise \| Contact \| RSS Feeds	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line782
__label__cc	0.65563	0.34437	» Bay Area Art and BART: How students taught me to take another look at public transportation By Shannon Tracey AC Transit, BART, Bay Area, Caltrain, Public transportation, Volunteering Don’t look now, but there are artists on your bus. And your train. And they’re taking inspiration from their journeys on public transportation throughout the Bay Area. This fall,... A Clean Sweep for Transportation Choices and a Fair Wage AC Transit, Alameda County, Ballot measure, BART, Bay Area, Oakland, San Francisco I’m still catching my breath (and drinking some extra coffee) after an exciting election night in California. While the new composition of the U.S. Senate means we may expect less federal funding for... "HOT" activity on the Peninsula, from San Jose to San Francisco By Clarrissa Cabansagan Bay Area, Express Lanes, San Francisco, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, Traffic reduction strategies If you drive a car or take a bus on any freeway in the Bay Area, chances are you’ll get stuck in traffic. This isn’t only a time-wasting nuisance, it’s bad for us. The more time we spend idling... The San Francisco Giants bring giant numbers for BART BART, Bay Area, Public transportation, Reducing driving, San Francisco Updated 10/30/2014: Go Giants! Now that the home team has captured the pennant again, BART is expecting even more people for tomorrow's ticker-tape parade in San Francisco. They're planning for... New certified projects in the Bay Area ease rent and transportation worries for residents By Jean Long Bay Area, Shared mobility, Climate, Combined cost of housing + transportation, GreenTRIP, Parking, Reducing driving As rent and transportation costs in California continue to rise, families in the Bay Area are finding it harder to afford to live in the place they call home. That’s why we’re thrilled to... BART Directors make the right decision to start fixing our aging system BART, Bay Area, Public transportation If last week’s meeting is any indicator, BART riders can look forward to a brighter future with more frequent, reliable, and affordable BART service. On October 9, the BART Board of Directors met... FutureBART.org – more than just a cool game Everyone’s got an opinion, and BART wants to hear yours…but instead of writing a letter or attending a meeting, they want you to play a game. Who said transit planning couldn’t be fun? BART’... MTC approves new guidelines that set the stage for better regional planning Bay Area, Climate, Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), Plan Bay Area, Regional planning No matter how great the script is, the director’s vision won’t come to life if the actors don’t play their parts. That’s why it’s so important for counties to play a coordinated role in implementing... More people plus fewer BART cars is a bad equation When it comes to BART, there is good news and bad news. The good news: more people are choosing to ride BART during the week, meaning that there are fewer cars on the road clogging our... New GreenTRIP Parking Database will help our cities thrive By Jennifer West Bay Area, Combined cost of housing + transportation, Complete streets, GreenTRIP, Parking, Traffic reduction strategies, Transit-oriented development In today’s world, technology makes it easy for us to access enormous amounts of helpful information with the click of a mouse. There’s an app that helps us choose where to eat, an app that tells us...	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line783
__label__cc	0.642724	0.357276	Senator Says MTA Needs To Take Over LIRR commuters need no reminder of the painful commutes they had to put up with for days to Amtrak’s recent derailment in one of the East River tunnels. All it did was highlight the sub par agreement between the LIRR & Amtrak in terms of control of operations. One of the first to criticize Amtrak having complete control of Penn Station & its actual track facilities was MTA Board Member Mitchell Pally who lashed out & called the agreement “unacceptable”. We can now add a new person to the list of those who feels the agreement needs to be changed, State Senator of the 8th District Charles Fuschilo Jr. who penned an editorial for the LI Herald: Following a number of significant Long Island Rail Road service disruptions and cancellations caused by Amtrak maintenance recently, I am calling on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to explore taking over maintenance of the rails in and out of Penn Station and the East River tunnels. The MTA should re-evaluate its current operating agreement with Amtrak and see what steps can be taken to have the authority to maintain the rails in and out of Penn Station. The LIRR and its riders have repeatedly been held hostage because of Amtrak’s maintenance practices. That is unacceptable. The recent Amtrak derailment, which resulted in significant cancellations and delays to LIRR riders, showed why the MTA/LIRR, not Amtrak, should maintain the rails in and out of Penn Station. Amtrak currently owns and maintains Penn Station and the four East River tunnels. Amtrak’s ownership prevents the LIRR from overseeing maintenance operations on its tracks, even though the LIRR operates more than three times as many weekday trains as Amtrak. While the LIRR cooperates with Amtrak on some maintenance and repair projects, it ultimately has no authority over maintenance operations that directly affect LIRR service. As I stated when Mr. Polly lashed out, I concur that the agreement should be changed as Amtrak’s track record of failure is too much to ignore. LIRR customers should not be held hostage by an agency that is the minority provider in terms of actual service out of the facility. Will the agreement be changed? Who knows, but it is clear that it should have been sometime ago. LIRR, Opinions Comment by jim on May 17, 2011 @ 12:51 PM So, of course, the very next day an MTA work train derailed at Dekalb Ave leading to massive problems on the subways. Glass houses … stones.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line784
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__label__cc	0.542155	0.457845	MMA: Jones vs. Gustafsson Could Happen Sooner Than Later Jones vs. Gustafsson If Jones vs. Gustafsson is a fight you’re hoping for this year, then we have an update for you that reveals it could happen sooner than later, according to Gustafsson (15-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC) . So far, we know both light heavyweights have been talking trash over Twitter, and are lobbying the fight for some time now. They even had a small face off in Russia the other day. On Friday, Gustafsson told MMA Fighting that he thinks it will happen soon. “He wants to fight me, and I want to fight him,” Gustafsson said. “[The UFC hasn’t] offered me the fight yet. I’m just really hoping to get some answers soon. “I’m really hoping for it, and I think I will get the fight. I think I will be offered a title fight very soon. Nothing is set or signed, though.” The question now is, when and where? UFC President Dana White also said the fight could very well happen, but since Jones suffered a toe injury last month. Nothing can go official yet. However, Jones this week said via Twitter that he was considering to start training again in three weeks, or recover more. Jump into a training camp in three weeks or recover more “@toby24salem: @JonnyBones what are the options?” — Jon Bones Jones (@JonnyBones) May 29, 2013 Although, Jones hasn’t confirmed what he will do next, this is still a positive indications for a possible match up between the two in the very near future. If Jones requires more time to recover, Gustafsson may need to take on former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Lyoto Machida to solidify himself as the number one contender in the division. Related Items: Alexander GustafssonJon Jones UFC 239: Melissa Gatto Vs. Julia Avila Added To Fight C ... Alexander Gustafsson Retires After UFC Stockholm Cain Velasquez Rips Jon Jones Apart For Drug Use	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line788
__label__cc	0.589358	0.410642	Warning: Illegal string offset 'src' in /homepages/39/d466174897/htdocs/NewVFTL/wp-content/plugins/jetpack/functions.opengraph.php on line 293 Author Archives: Tom No confidence in Ed Vaizey CILIP’s AGM tomorrow at the Library of Birmingham will be more interesting than most AGMs. Though much ink has been spilt over a proposed name change to ILPUK, which is not a matter we in Voices for the Library take an official view on, (though you could do worse than to read Ian Anstice’s post on the matter) there is a much more important question before the meeting, a motion of no confidence in Ed Vaizey. Proposed by Jo Richardson, and seconded by Tom Roper, both members of Voices for the Library, it reads as follows: “In view of his failures to enforce the 1964 Public Libraries and Museums Act, this Annual General Meeting of CILIP has no confidence in Ed Vaizey, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, and instructs Council to work with all other interested parties to protect library, information and knowledge services.” There are detailed arguments for the motion on the No Confidence in Ed Vaizey blog. We’d urge support; it will show that CILIP is outward-looking, and wants to work with campaigners in practical ways on the ground. The debate will take place at roughly the same time as Save Lincolnshire Libraries‘ #BigLibraryMarch. The best support CILIP can give them is to pass the motion. This entry was posted in news, team blog posts and tagged #BigLibraryMarch, #CILIPAGM13, vaizey on September 20, 2013 by Tom. Marching for a future that works Members of Voices for the Library, along with supporters of the Speak Up for Libraries alliance, library campaigners and supporters, will be joining the TUC demonstration in London on Saturday, A Future That Works. Library campaigners will also be represented at the Glasgow and Belfast marches. Why are we marching? public libraries have a key part to play in getting people back to work and building a modern economy with jobs for all libraries are under attack; so are schools, hospitals, housing, transport, industry…everything that makes us a civilised nation Library supporters will be meeting under the Speak Up for Libraries banner at 11 am on the Embankment opposite Middle Temple Lane. Map here. It’s going to be a big march; if you can’t find us, make sure you have some library-themed placards. A good turn-out this Saturday will be a boost to the Speak Up for Libraries conference three weeks later, on 10 November. Registration is still open. This entry was posted in news and tagged #Oct20 on October 18, 2012 by Tom. Help RNIB protect the Talking Book Service for blind and partially sighted people Imagine for a moment that your choice of books is reduced to just 7%. That is the reality facing blind and partially sighted readers who rely on books in braille, audio and large print. Blind and partially sighted people in Brighton and Hove are now facing another battle to continue reading. The City Council is proposing to stop paying the subscription fee for their Talking Book Service run by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB). And their situation is not unique. Increasingly, local authorities across the country are threatening to cut back support for the Talking Book Service, giving people no option but to pay for themselves or use other services which do not offer the same high standards of choice, quality and reader support. Sound familiar? This erosion of commitment to a quality library service for blind people is exactly the same as cuts and closures to local public libraries. In fact, it’s a double blow for blind and partially sighted people, many of whom are elderly, on disability benefits and housebound. Even if they are able to get out and about, cuts to local branch libraries and reduced public transport means getting to the nearest library is impossible, especially in rural areas. Not to mention cuts in the amount of money libraries have to spend on audio and large print books. Reading brings pleasure and enjoyment and is essential for work and education, literacy and lifelong learning. RNIB believes that people with sight loss have the same rights to access the rich world of books as anyone else. And they should be able to choose the books they want to read from a library service which best meets their needs. Local authorities may view books as a luxury item but they are not an optional extra. The Talking Book Service plays an essential role in reducing isolation and loneliness for blind people, providing companionship and contributing to good health and a sense of well-being. As Diane Fazackarley from Brighton says: “I can’t go to the library on my own but I can make it to the post box to return my Talking Books. Most Talking Book users are older people who don’t get out a lot and don’t have a lot of money and the Council wants to take away one of their only few pleasures.” In Brighton and Hove, the annual savings that would be achieved by cutting the Talking Book Service (£22,000) are very small indeed when seen against a savings programme of more than £80m over the next four years. Thanks to generous public donations, RNIB subsidises each Talking Books subscription, thereby reducing the amount we ask local authorities to contribute. We do this because we understand the importance of reading to blind and partially sighted people but we can’t do it all by ourselves. RNIB’s Talking Book Service is a lifeline for blind and partially sighted people and we need your help to protect it from the bureaucracy of budget cuts. Please join our campaign in Brighton and Hove today to ensure that this vital service continues to be provided for those who would not be able to afford to access it on their own. The consultation closes on 10 February and you can respond at http://consult.brighton-hove.gov.uk/portal – thanks for your support. This entry was posted in guest posts and tagged brighton, visual impairment on February 1, 2012 by Tom. Our evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee Following our submission of evidence earlier this month to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee’s inquiry into library closures, we have been given permission to publish it on our website. In summary we felt that: A comprehensive and efficient library service should be accessible, should be adequately resourced, should have a wide range of services and content, should have sufficiently skilled staff, and should be available to users at their point of need. The English public widely value libraries as a force for social good which should be provided free. Many planned library cuts and closures are incompatible with the requirements of the Public Libraries & Museums Act 1964: removing qualified and trained library staff will result in a failure to provide adequate services under the terms of the Act and in many cases, councils are making decisions to close libraries based on misleading statistics, an inadequate definition of ‘comprehensive and efficient’, and the outdated Act itself. There is strong evidence that communities value local public libraries and that closures would therefore have a negative impact in several ways: on children; on the physical, mental, and emotional health of communities; on lifelong learning; on community cohesion and inclusivity; and on local economies. The powers of intervention given to the Secretary of State are not deficient. The failure lies with the Secretary of State’s lack of willingness to exercise these powers, coupled with lack of guidance from senior ministers and appropriate Government departments. Our full response to the Inquiry can be found here. We have also been invited to give oral evidence to the Committee leading the Inquiry. This entry was posted in team blog posts, Uncategorized, website and tagged campaigns, closures, democracy, inquiry, law, library provision, savelibraries on January 31, 2012 by Tom. Ian Anstice named as Information Professional of the Year 2011 We were thrilled to learn that Ian Anstice, a member of the Voices for the Library team, Librarian in Charge of Winsford Library in Cheshire and proprietor, editor, sub-editor, journalist and everything else at Public Libraries News, has been awarded Information Professional of the Year 2011. It’s a rare honour, as the award is not often given to public librarians. Ian singlehandedly keeps the site going, with daily updates of news from a bewildering variety of sources. HIs Stakhanovite work has helped support campaigns around the country, as well as national organisations. Everyone, even enemies of libraries, goes to Public Libraries News to find out what’s going on. Well done Ian, congratulations! For the official announcement, see: http://www.iwr.co.uk/professional-and-library/3011175/Public-Library-News-man-wins-IWR-award This entry was posted in news and tagged ian anstice, information professional of the year, online, online2011 on November 29, 2011 by Tom. Victory for Gloucestershire and Somerset Gloucestershire and Somerset library campaigners heard today that they have won their claim over library cuts and closures. The judge ruled in favour of their claims regarding the councils’ neglect to consider or address the findings of the Equality Impact Assessments that had been conducted. A quashing order means that the campaigners have put a halt to the council’s current plans for libraries – both local authorities’ plans will have to be rethought. We would like to congratulate both Gloucestershire and Somerset campaigners and their lawyers on their success. We know it has been a long battle and their determination has paid off. Regarding the councils’ failures to comply with the public sector equality duties, His Honour Judge McKenna ruled: “The real question on this aspect of the case, it seems to me, is whether there was a conscious directing of the mind by the decision makers to their obligations under the legislation and in particular to the need to exercise the duty to have due regard in substance and with rigour and based on sufficient information, appropriately analysed. “In my judgment, on the preponderance of the evidence, no such due regard was had in substance. In order to discharge their respective duties, GCC and SCC should have undertaken a sufficiently thorough information gathering exercise and then properly analysed that information. In this case I conclude that both GCC and SCC failed to comply with that obligation, accepting as I do the substance of the Claimants’ criticisms made of their respective information gathering and analysis to which I have referred above.” Image from The Bookseller Friends of Gloucestershire Libraries write: “We are delighted with the outcome of the judicial review. This outcome follows the proper scrutiny of Gloucestershire County Council’s library plans in court; scrutiny which was never allowed under the councils own processes. The judge’s decision to rule in the claimant’s favour on equality grounds is a real vindication of our campaign, which has long argued that the removal of public library services from the most disadvantaged, deprived and vulnerable members of our community is grossly unfair. We are also pleased to learn that the council have been denied permission to appeal the decision. “However, as Gloucestershire tax payers we regret the inevitable expense that will now be incurred by the county, and which could have been avoided if only the council had listened to and engaged with service users – they have seriously let their taxpayers and electorate down. Over the last year library users and retired professional librarians have repeatedly warned the council that they were in breach of the law, but party politics was always placed before these concerns, which were again and again dismissed. “Gloucestershire residents should never have had to go through this stressful, upsetting and expensive process and serious questions now also need to be answered by the secretary of state Ed Vaizey. It is Mr Vaizey’s duty to intervene when authorities are not meeting their obligations to provide a library service available to all who wish to use it. Why were Gloucestershire County Council allowed to continue down this destructive path? In opposition Mr Vaizey was a vocal critic of library closures yet our many pleas for help have been ignored whilst library users were left to fight this alone – it is clear that he left his convictions at the door on entering office. “We would like to thank supporters of the campaign locally and nationally, and urge all Gloucestershire library users to keep a close eye on the county council’s activities in the coming months to ensure they do their job properly this time round. We also need to be vigilant to cuts which may be planned for the future. Libraries are more important than ever in times of financial crises, when education costs are rising astronomically and many people are losing their jobs. We hope that come the next county council elections, voters will remember the arrogance displayed by the Gloucestershire County Council administration on this issue. “It has been brought to our attention that Cllr Hawthorne has told the press that the council “lost on a small technical point”. This is absolutely NOT the case. The judge said “the decisions under challenge were not just unlawful but bad government” hence the total quashing of the library plans and telling them they have to start again. It was VERY serious that they lost on this point. The judge said it was a “substantive error of law” and a “substantial breach” “We should receive a full transcript of the judgement in due course. That Cllr Hawthorne still considers his public sector equalities duties as a “small technical point” is extremely worrying.” Channel Four News – Three minute segment on the decision Councillors at the most dangerous when wounded – Alan Gibbons Court rulest library closures unlawful – Guardian High Court Judge rules GCC’s library cuts unlawful – FoGL Judge rules County Council library closures “unlawful” – This is the West Country Library campaigners win legal challenge – Channel Four News Library closures can be challenged, judge rules – BBC Library closures challenge allowed – Independent MP welcomes court’s decision over “unlawful” closure plans – This is the West Country Somerset and Gloucs library closures “unlawful” – BookSeller Somerset County Council reacts to High Court ruling over libraries – Chard and Ilminster News “Vaizey ignored us”, say library campaigners – BookSeller Victory – Campaign for the Book Victory for Gloucestershire library campaigners – This is Gloucestershire Campaigners score victory at High Court – CILIP Update (link no longer available) CILIP response to the Gloucestershire and Somerset libraries judicial review – CILIP (link no longer available) This entry was posted in campaigns and tagged equalities act, gloucestershire, high court, public libraries and museums act 1964, savelibraries, somerset on November 16, 2011 by Tom. Birmingham City Council’s library cuts: from world class city to mediocrity This is an open letter from John Dolan, former Head of Libraries at Birmingham City Council, to Cllr. Mike Whitby, Leader of Birmingham City Council and Cabinet Member, Culture, copied to Randal Brew Cabinet Member, Finance and Ian Ward, opposition member for Culture. Dear Councillors Whitby and Mullaney, The Birmingham Post sets out cuts planned for Birmingham Libraries http://bit.ly/sFdMAC .This comes out one day before the last Council public consultation meeting on its budget plans. There was no mention of libraries in list of cuts up for public consultation. In all the public papers (at http://bit.ly/hhBqvJ); the words ‘library’ or ‘libraries’ are not used anywhere. This is actually about dismantling the service through the back door while pretending to fix the front door. Birmingham has already dismissed most of the senior and middle management. Previous cuts: What is the financial value of cuts and savings already made this financial year? Managers and staff? Bookfund? Other resources? The closed Children’s Mobile Library? The closed Schools Library Service? Maintenance budgets? Training budgets? Reduced hours? Libraries closed “for repair”? Investment: What is being invested in library buildings, their maintenance, on re-opening libraries closed “for repair”? How many libraries already require repairs over say, £50,000? How much will be spent on self-service machines? What’s the timescale? Who will be charged with installing them and training staff? People: Why does this report not say that, already, nearly all senior and middle management have been made redundant, that the majority of librarians are being made redundant? Why are you deliberately getting rid of librarian skills? How will you provide library services of any quality? Volunteers: You talk of using volunteers. What skills will they need? What will be their responsibilities? Who will manage volunteers? How will they be trained? Will they be able to do information searches, tell stories to children, advise on reading, assist with homework, show people how to use the computer, plan and run summer reading/literacy programmes? Will they have access to my personal information? Bookstart: Who will distribute the Government-funded ‘Bookstart’ books for babies as the ‘Bookstart’ librarian has been made redundant? Income: Where’s the business plan for leasing rooms? How many rooms? Rooms are already ‘leased’ – so does this mean the end of reduced / free room use for voluntary community groups? What is the additional income forecast?- Co-location: Which buildings are you planning to share with others? Aston has already moved to smaller premises; which others are to move? Library of Birmingham: You have a chance to do something special to put Birmingham on the map. How much are the “savings being made on the £187 million Library of Birmingham”? Are you still planning for the LOB to be a “world class” library – in services as well as architecture?” How will the LOB work with and support local libraries in local communities? Do you have a revenue budget for the LOB? Will it be what was envisaged or will you downgrade the world class vision to the provincial ordinary Community libraries: How do you envisage a community library will play an active part in community life if it’s only open “two days a week”? Birmingham Library Services: This was an historic, outstanding and innovative public service. Will the library service be reunited as one service or remain divided across constituencies, duplicating and wasting resources? How much does each constituency have to save? What if some agree and others don’t? Or what has already been agreed out of public view? Total savings: These savings were not in the list for consultation with the total savings target. Why were they omitted? Are they extra to those announced? Public consultation: Why has there been no public information about these proposals? Why was this information deliberately omitted from the presentations at the public meetings? Why is there no public consultation about library service cuts? What does the council intend to do about that? Would you accept that there is actually no strategic thinking here about public library services? There has been no meaningful consultation on library service cuts or its future. Isn’t your real intention to neglect and downgrade the service to be, at best, mediocre? How therefore, do you intend to meet your duties under library legislation? You must provide a “comprehensive and efficient library service” to everyone who wishes to use it. How will you do that? Finally, you need to be told that the budget consultation papers are in such complex language and layout as to completely shatter the Council’s own rules on plain language. I await your comments and explanations. John Dolan OBE This entry was posted in guest posts, news and tagged Birmingham, savelibraries on November 14, 2011 by Tom. Culture Media and Sport Committee: a quick account Reproduced with thanks to the Library Campaign: Until the official transcript of this morning’s Culture Media and Sport Select Committee session with the Secretary of State, Jeremy Hunt, appears, here’s a version in note form put together by reviewing the live television stream. Note that we were incorrect to tweet during the session that Hunt had said that the Isle of Wight and Somerset court cases were due to report before the end of the month; he said that it was Gloucestershire and Somerset. Nevertheless, Brent campaigners will be surprised to hear this, as they believe their Court of Appeal case will come first. Hunt was asked three questions by the committee, all by the chair. Q: How does he understand the 1964 Public Libraries and Museums Act requirement for a comprehensive and efficient service? A: Original definition of comprehensive and efficient in Roberts Report of 1959. Comprehensive = good selection of books, when books more expensive, efficient = reducing no of authorities. He takes responsibilities seriously, modernisation yes, vandalism no. Has had extensive discussions and engagement with Brent, Lewisham, Somerset, Gloucestershire and IoW about their programmes, not appropriate to comment in detail on individual cases as judicial reviews in progress, Somerset and Glos this month, Brent from Court of Appeal next. 151 library authorities, 140 are modernising, dealing with cuts without large library closure programmes. What we are here to protect under 64 Act is services not buildings, not to stand in way of sensible modernisation, make sure local authorities doing everything they can through library plans to maintain good library services Q Website says closure of one or even small number of branches not necessarily breach of Act. Suggests closure of larger number is. A number are making substantial cuts. Do you think some without naming names are in breach? A: monitoring closely. Five authorities spoken to, IoW has found way forward for community to run five libraries its withdrawn funding from , Lewisham is finding community led alternatives, Somerset and Gloucs are trying these, Brent has taken different approach but extending weekend opening to seven days at the six it is keeping open. Not about number of buildings closed, but about availability of service, going through proper process and DCSM satisfying ourselves that councils are taking responsibility Q: Physical books still important? A: I personally have great emotional attachment to books, grew up reading books think they’re wonderful. As world changes, commitment must be to reading. People exploiting and enjoying literature, in broad sense. Will have less commitment to an individual way of reading, but libraries have important part to play in new digital world, not a reason for not having good library services. Hunt’s performance was disappointing, but that was expected; and protestations by politicians about how much they love books are always to be treated with suspicion. What was worse was the lack of interest from the committee members. It demonstrates an anti-library consensus among the political class, whatever party label they may espouse. No wonder people are cynical about MPs. This entry was posted in campaigns on October 27, 2011 by Tom. Library Campaign Conference: 22 October, London Voices for the Library are proud to support the Library Campaign’s conference on 22 October at the University of London Union. This is the first national forum for campaigners since the onslaught against public libraries began after the general election. Philip Pullman is speaking. More details here This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged conferences on September 20, 2011 by Tom. Alan Gibbons at the Libraries Change Lives awards Alan Gibbons introduced the Libraries Change Lives awards ceremony on Wednesday 13 July with a passionate speech for the value of libraries. He learnt to read thanks to Gladstonian liberalism, the socialist and trade union movement, and the 1964 Public Libraries and Museums Act, introduced by a Tory government. However, Gibbons argues, the political class has now forgotten the importance of libraries. As South Korea, one of the most wired countries in the world, opens 180 new public libraries, local authorities around the United Kingdom are closing over 400. A child who reads is a successful child. In a world driven by information, the child who can’t read can’t access the print or the digital worlds. For this reason Alan started Campaign for the Book, and helped to co-ordinate Save Libraries Day on 5th February 2011. 110 simultaneous demonstrations were held around the country; at one small library in the Cotswolds, with a capacity of 30, seven hundred people were in attendance . Libraries have never been in such danger, yet never talked about so much. There is a disparity between what librarians do and what they are often perceived as doing. Librarians are not shelf-stackers, said Gibbons, they should tell the world what they do. If we allow libraries to close, they will be impossible to rebuild. We must go out and tell the people who are not yet convinced of the value of libraries about why they are so important, he concluded. From a shortlist of three, the winner was Kent County Council’s ‘Making the Difference’, an innovative project which welcomes adults with learning disabilities into libraries. Alan commented, “libraries and librarians provide gateways to learning for all members of our communities; access to information, narratives and self empowerment regardless of their personal circumstances, income or background. I congratulate Kent County Council, and salute all such innovative projects. In difficult times such as these, the role of library and information professionals can’t be overestimated.” At the end of the ceremony, he was given honorary fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), the organisers of the event. Congratulations, Alan, from Voices for the Library. This recognition of your tireless advocacy is well deserved. This entry was posted in news and tagged #ub11, alangibbons, hatfield, librarieschangelive, umbrella on July 14, 2011 by Tom.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line796
__label__wiki	0.556095	0.556095	Andrew Parker joins VSL To Form Largest Dedicated Agency Team in Oxfordshire City Centre Offices Create Rare Opportunity for Businesses to Design Own Space Comfort Chair Specialists Move to Oxford Giant Gets Planning Consent Hedges Law on Advice for Landlords---Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards Kidlington Office Market On The Rise New Owners for Steventon Storage Facility Oxford City FC win new Indoor Sports Arena in Oxford Oxfordshire commercial property market hits 7-year peak Sixfold Win For Leading Commercial Property Firm Summertown, one of the most popular areas of Oxford, is booming Toolstation Letting Sparks Interest in New Abingdon Trade Warehouse Scheme VSL Acquires City Centre Office Space for Semmle VSL Announces the sale of Abingdon Business Park to Rockspring VSL Brokers RM Deal to Find New Home for Councils VSL Sponsors a New Oxfordshire Cultural Experience Commercial property consultants VSL & Partners has been officially ranked as Oxfordshire’s Most Active Agent 2015 by the prestigious EGi Deals Competition for the sixth year in succession. Leading property publication, Estates Gazette and it’s EGi assessment team gathered information regarding deals transacted in the last 12 months, covering all sectors of the market including industrial, office, retail and leisure across the UK. Once again, it was VSL’s dominance in the office and industrial markets, which helped it secure the Most Active Agent title for another year. Duncan May, Associate Director of the firm is also ranked as The Most Active Dealmaker in Oxfordshire for 2015 for the most transactions undertaken. Duncan explains: “We‘re absolutely delighted to have been ranked as EGi’s Most Active Agent in Oxfordshire once again. 2014 was an outstanding year where we advised on transactions totaling 694,329 sq ft and we have seen an increase in take-up so far in 2015, so this pattern is set to continue. We have taken on an additional two specialist surveyors, which means that we now have the largest dedicated commercial property agency team in Oxford, which further consolidates our position as leader in our field.” VSL has also been mentioned in the CoStar 2015 Awards, announced Monday 5th October which recognises the outstanding individuals and companies of the past 12 months. CoStar is known as the UK’s most widely read commercial property news service and data was analysed from over 8,300 agents across the UK. VSL & Partners was noted for completing the seventh largest deal in the Thames Valley and Western Corridor region at Windrush Court in Cowley and was also placed tenth in terms of number of instructions transacted and eighth across the region in terms of the number of disposals completed. For further information or to speak to one of VSL & Partners’ experts, please call 01865 848488.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line797
__label__wiki	0.654548	0.654548	OEE Relocate to Oxford Business Park Abingdon Business Park Cherwell College Oxford Take Prime City Centre Space Continued Momentum for Kidlington Office Market Healthcare Agency Find New Home in Summertown Hi-tech Firms are Moving In Major Bicester Plans Announced Oxfordshire Agency Scoop Industry Award for the Seventh Time Rates Revaluation 2017: Who Will the Winners and Losers Be in Oxford? Strong Demand at Oxford Industrial Park Town Mayor Officially Opens Three Michaels Yard in Carterton Trade City Launches This Month VSL Announce Oxford Playhouse Membership VSL Complete Eynsham Site Sale to Clockwork Components Witney Welcomes First Self Storage Business VSL & Partners has become Business Club members of the Oxford Playhouse. In announcing the membership Richard Venables, director at VSL said: “As a local business, we are very pleased to support the Oxford Playhouse, we believe this is a mutually beneficial relationship, which enables us to support this important local institution whilst providing exciting benefits for our staff.“ Oxford Playhouse is one of Britain’s most respected theatres which generate huge support for up-and-coming artists and presents over 800 performances each year by over 100 companies. And apart from enriching the culture by staging a comprehensive range of events, it also plays a valuable role in inspiring young people in the area through its community involvement programmes.” Jessica Dixon, Development Officer at the Oxford Playhouse explains: “We are delighted to welcome VSL & Partners to our Business Club. The support of our Business Club members and sponsors is essential to our continued success and enables us to continue our important work both on and off the stage." As part of their commitment to supporting businesses and encouraging culture in Oxfordshire VSL takes part in many local initiatives, including Experience Oxfordshire in helping to promote tourism and culture across the county. Most recently VSL has become a member of a new Oxford group known as Reciprocate, which is a collaboration of businesses who meet to discuss corporate social responsibility, the social impact and charitable giving. Hosted by Oxfordshire Community Foundation (OCF), Reciprocate aims to strengthen community resilience by building stronger, more sustainable capability within local charities and increase awareness of the positive impact responsible businesses can have within Oxfordshire. Richard explains: “We strongly believe that Oxfordshire’s economic wellbeing is intrinsically linked to its social and cultural strength, so we feel passionately that we should be proactively involved in the cultural and economic development of Oxford city and its surrounds.” VSL is longstanding corporate sponsors for the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and is involved in the Oxford Strategic Partnership as well as Cherwell – M40 Investment Partnership (CHIP). Richard Venables is joint Chair of the Oxford City Council Economic Development Steering Group and a private sector board member of the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership.	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line798
__label__wiki	0.707043	0.707043	The Atlantic Cup 2019 Coach Marco Rose, Red Bull Salzburg. <Back to Blog List> Written by: Eivor red bull salzburg marco rose the atlantic cup marco rose red bull salzburg the atlantic cup 2019 View All Daily round upNewsInterviews Pontus Almqvist (16) IFK Norrköping after losing on penalty shoot-out against SC Farense -The pitch was heavy to run on, and we are not use to it. Maybe next year. Says Pontus Almqvist (16) IFK Norrköping when talking about taking the Atlantic Cup trophy back to Sweden. <More> Daniel Fernandes (90) Goalkeeper SC Farense after match against swedish IFK Norrköping -It´s a matter of philosophy. Farense always play to win, and tired is just a word, really. Says goalkeeper Daniel Fernandes from SC Farense after winning on penalty shoot-out against IFK Norrköping in the last match in this years The Atlantic Cup. <More> Youssef Toutouh (24) AGF Aarhus after win over Rosenborg BK -It was a good game against a good opponent. Everything is about winning, and today we won, so we are happy. Says Youssef Toutouh (24) walking off the pitch in Albufeira, Portugal. AGF AArhus won 3-2 over Rosenborg Bk in The Atlantic Cup 2019. <More> coach David Nielsen, AGF AArhus after match against Rosenborg BK -A really good game. Both teams; alot of attacking football. Tempo was good,really high, and good goals, so I am very pleased. Says Coach David Nielsen, AGF Aarhus after winning 3-2 over Rosenborg BK in The Atlantic Cup 2019. <More> Anders Konradsen (8) Rosenborg BK after losing 2-3 to AGF Aarhus -We still have a way to go, but this was a ok test for us. Says Anders Konradsen (8) Rosenborg BK, after their second match here in The Atlantic Cup 2019. <More> Alois Höller (8) SV Mattersburg after 1-2 loss against IFK Norrköping -We are ten days here in Portugal, and the training was very hard. It´s our last day here, so I think people have seen that we are very tired today. Says Alois Höller (8) from SV Mattersburg after losing 1-2 against ifk Norrköping in The Atlantic Cup 2019. <More> Jordan Larsson (11) IFK Norrköping after win against SV Mattersburg -First half we didn`t play to our full potential, but we still created some chances. Second half we start to play our own game. Says a happy Jordan Larsson (11) from IFK Norrköping after scoring two goals in the match against SV Mattersburg, that ended 2-1 after 90 minutes. <More> Eirik Horneland, new coach Rosenborg BK -We started one week ago, so we need more training, before we can cope with a team like this. says the new coach of Rosenborg BK after their 0-2 loss against SK Slavia Praha in The Atlantic Cup 2019. <More> Djordje Denic (5) and Jonathan Levi (17), Rosenborg BK having fun at trainingcamp in Algarve -I know nothing! Says player Djordie Denic (5) from RBK, when asked if he wanted to do a battle with his teammate Jonathan Levi (17) after their first training session here in Algarve, Portugal. <More> Roger Schmidt, coach Beijing Guoan, after match against SV Mattersburg -We want to develop our young players, and I think it`s very good for them to compare themselfs with the real Europian players. Beijing Guoan won 3-1 over SV Mattersburg in penalty shoot-out. <More> The following teams will make up The Atlantic Cup 2019 - AGF Aarhus (Denmark), Beijing Guoan (China), Red Bull Salzburg (Austria), Mattersburg (Austria), FK Jablonec (Czech Republic), Slavia Prague (Czech Republic), IFK Norrkoping (Sweden), Rosenborg BK (Norway) and SC Farense (Portugal). © Sporting Events (UK) Limited 2016 Website by: GreyBox Creative	cc/2019-30/en_middle_0016.json.gz/line800

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